Species Cyclorana platycephalus (Günther, 1873)
Eastern Water-holding Frog
- Chiroleptes platycephalus Günther, A. 1873. Description of two new species of frogs from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 11: 349-350 [350].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1947.2.18.42, Fort Bourke, NSW. - Cyclorana slevini Loveridge, A. 1950. New frogs of the genera Cyclorana and Hyla from south-eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 63: 131-138 [131].
Type data:
Holotype CAS 82052, Noondoo, SE QLD.
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]
Generic Combinations
- Cyclorana platycephala (Günther, 1873). —
Parker, H.W. 1940. The Australasian frogs of the family Leptodactylidae. Novitates Zoologicae 42: 1-106
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, burrower, desert, hummock grassland, low open shrubland, low shrubland, low woodland, nocturnal, oviparous, tall shrubland, terrestrial.
Extra Ecological Information
Opportunistic aquatic breeder.
General References
Dawson, A.B. 1951. Functional and degenerate or rudimentary glomeruli in the kidney of two species of Australian frog, Cyclorana (Chiroleptes) platycephalus and alboguttatus (Günther). Anatomical Records 109: 417-430
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
van Beurden, E.K. 1980. Energy metabolism of dormant Australian water-holding frogs (Cyclorana platycephalus). Copeia 1980: 787-799
History of changes
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| 07-Feb-2024 | AMPHIBIA | 02-Jan-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 04-Feb-2023 | AMPHIBIA | 08-Dec-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 28-Sep-2022 | ANURA Fischer von Waldheim, 1813 | 08-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 31-Jan-2017 | 09-Apr-2014 | MODIFIED | ||
| 23-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED |