Species Crinia parinsignifera Main, 1957
Beeping Froglet, Eastern Sign-bearing Froglet
- Crinia parinsignifera 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 [53].
Type data:
Holotype WAM R38735, Kingston-on-Murray, SA.
Generic Combinations
- Ranidella parinsignifera (Main, 1957).
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM)
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, cryptozoic, low open woodland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, open scrub, oviparous, predator, tall shrubland, terrestrial, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Seasonal breeder, free-living tadpole.
General References
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)
MacNally, R.C. 1979. Social organization and interspecific interactions in two sympatric species of Ranidella (Anura). Oecologia (Berlin) 42: 293-306
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)
Tyler, M.J. 1978. Amphibians of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government 84 pp. (natural history)
History of changes
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| 07-Feb-2024 | AMPHIBIA | 19-Dec-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 11-Oct-2012 | 16-Oct-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 31-Jan-2017 | 14-Aug-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 23-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED |