Species Cyclorana novaehollandiae Steindachner, 1867
New Holland Frog, Wide-mouthed Frog
- Cyclorana novaehollandiae Steindachner, F. 1867. Amphibien. pp. 1–70 in, Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorff-Urbair. Zoologie 1(4). Vienna : State Printer. [1869 on title page] [29, pl. 2 figs 7-10].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NHMW 4716–7, Rockhampton, QLD. - Phractops alutaceus Peters, W. 1867. Herpetologische notizen. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1867: 13-37 [1868 on title page] [31] [there is evidence that this name was published prior to Cyclorana novaehollandiae Steindachner, 1867].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB 5653, Rockhampton, QLD.
Paratype(s) AMNH 23581; RMNH 3867.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [37]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, burrower, closed forest, low open shrubland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, open scrub, oviparous, tall shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Seasonal breeder, free-living tadpole, anuriphagous.
General References
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
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04-Feb-2023 | AMPHIBIA | 08-Dec-2022 | MODIFIED | |
31-Jan-2017 | 13-Aug-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
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