Species Heleioporus eyrei (Gray, 1845)
Moaning Frog
- Perialia eyrei 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. [407, pl. 2 fig. 3].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1947.2.19.80–83, Murray River, WA.Type locality references:
Glauert, L. 1947. Some unfortunate errors in collecting localities. Western Australian Naturalist 1: 48. - Heleioporus insularis Loveridge, A. 1933. A new genus and three new species of crinine frogs from Australia. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 8: 89-94 [92].
Type data:
Holotype WAM R4303, Rottnest Is., WA.
Generic Combinations
- Heleioporus eyrei (Gray, 1845).
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, burrower, nocturnal, open forest, oviparous, predator, swamp, terrestrial, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Seasonal breeder in swamps, free-living tadpole.
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
Lee, A.K. 1967. Studies in Australian Amphibia. II. Taxonomy, ecology, and evolution of the genus Heleioporus Gray (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 367-439
Lee, A.K. 1968. Water economy of the burrowing frog, Heleioporus eyrei (Gray). Copeia 1963: 741-745 (physiology)
Main, A.R. 1965. Frogs of southern Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist Club Handbook 8: 1-73 (natural history)
History of changes
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| 31-Jan-2017 | ANURA Fischer von Waldheim, 1813 | 03-Feb-2017 | MODIFIED | |
| 31-Jan-2017 | 16-Oct-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 23-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED |