Genus Heleioporus Gray, 1841

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• Heleioporus Gray, J.E. 1841. Description of some new species and four new genera of reptiles from Western Australia, discovered by John Gould, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 42: 86-91 [91].

  Type species:

   Heleioporus albopunctatus Gray, 1841 by monotypy.
• Helioporus Gray, J.E. 1841. A catalogue of the species of Reptiles and Amphibia hitherto described as inhabiting Australia, with a description of some new species from Western Australia. Appendix E. pp. 422-449 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [447] [unjustified emendation of Heleioporus Gray, 1841].
• Perialia Gray, J.E. 1845. Description of some new Australian animals. Appendix. pp. 405-411 in Eyre, E.J. (ed.). Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1; sent by the colonists of South Australia, with the sanction and support of the Government: including an account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 1. [406].

  Type species:

   Perialia eyrei Gray, 1845 by subsequent designation, see Parker, H.W. 1940. The Australasian frogs of the family Leptodactylidae. Novitates Zoologicae 42: 1-106.
• Heleioforus Kref[f]t, G. 1865. The frogs of Australia. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1865: 16-20 [17] [unjustified emendation, lapsus for Heleioporus Gray, 1841].
• Philocryphus Fletcher, J.J. 1894. Description of a new cystignathoid frog from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 8: 229-236 [233].

  Type species:

   Philocryphus flavoguttatus Fletcher, 1894 by monotypy.

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. [15]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

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