Species Crinia insignifera Moore, 1954

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crinia insignifera Moore, J.A. 1954. Geographic and genetic isolation in Australian Amphibia. American Naturalist 88(839): 65-74 [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R16007, Armadale (as Attadale on type label), WA [but note that Attadale is regarded as the correct type locality by Shea & Sadlier (1999)].

  Type locality references:

  Shea, G.M. & Sadlier, R.A. 1999. A catalogue of the non-fossil amphibian and reptile type specimens in the collection of the Australian Museum: types currently, previously and purportedly present. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 15: 1-91.

 

Generic Combinations

• Ranidella insignifera (Moore, 1954).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, nocturnal, open forest, open heath, oviparous, predator, swamp, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder in swamps, free-living tadpole.

 

General References

Blackwell, J.M. 1978. Intra-specific divergence in the Western Australian frog species Ranidella insignifera. 1. The evidence from gene frequencies and genetic distance. Heredity 40: 339-348

Blackwell, J.M. & Bull, C.M. 1978. A narrow hybrid zone between two Western Australian frog species Ranidella insignifera and R. pseudinsignifera: the extent of introgression. Heredity 40: 13-25

Bull, C.M. 1979. A narrow hybrid zone between two Western Australian frog species. Ranidella insignifera and R. pseudinsignifera: the fitness of hybrids. Heredity 42: 381-389

Littlejohn, M.J. 1959. Call differentiation in a complex of seven species of Crinia (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Evolution 13: 452-468

Littlejohn, M.J. 1961. Age and origin of some southwestern Australian species of Crinia (Anura: Leptodactylidae). pp. 514-536 in Blair, W.F. (ed.). Vertebrate Speciation. Austin : Univ. of Texas Press. (biogeography)

Main, A.R. 1957. Studies in Australian Amphibia. 1. The genus Crinia Tschudi in south western Australia and some species from south eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 5: 30-55 (taxonomy)

Main, A.R. 1961. Crinia insignifera Moore (Anura: Leptodactylidae) on Rottnest Island. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 44: 10-13 (distribution)

Main, A.R. 1965. Frogs of southern Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist Club Handbook 8: 1-73 (natural history)

Main, A.R. 1965. The inheritance of dorsal pattern in Crinia species (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 48: 60-64 (genetics)

 

History of changes

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