Species Cyclorana australis (Gray, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alytes australis Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians. pp. 51-57 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würz & Co. [56].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1947.2.18.43–44, Port Essington, NT.

  Type locality references:

  Boulenger, G.A. 1882. Catalogue of the Batrachia Gradentia s. Caudata in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xvi + 503 pp.

 

Generic Combinations

• Cyclorana australis (Gray, 1842). —
  Parker, H.W. 1940. The Australasian frogs of the family Leptodactylidae. Novitates Zoologicae 42: 1-106
• Litoria australis (Gray, 1842). —
  Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1-370 + Fig. 50 foldout

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, burrower, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, oviparous, predator, swamp, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder in swamps, free-living tadpole, anuriphagous.

 

General References

King, M., Tyler, M.J., Davies, M. & King, D. 1979. Karyotypic studies on Cyclorana and associated genera of Australian frogs. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 699-708

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

Parker, H.W. 1940. The Australasian frogs of the family Leptodactylidae. Novitates Zoologicae 42: 1-106

Tyler, M.J. & Martin, A.A. 1975. Australian leptodactylid frogs of the Cyclorana australis complex. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 99: 93-99

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	AMPHIBIA	02-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
04-Feb-2023	AMPHIBIA	08-Dec-2022	MODIFIED
31-Jan-2017	ANURA Fischer von Waldheim, 1813	03-Feb-2017	MODIFIED
31-Jan-2017		12-Feb-2015	MODIFIED
		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED