Genus Limnodynastes Fitzinger, 1843
- Limnodynastes Fitzinger, L.J. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus Primus. Amblyglossae. Vienna : Braümüller et Seidel i-vi, 106 pp. [31].
Type species:
Cystignathus peronii Duméril & Bibron, 1841 by original designation (as Cystign. peronii). - Wagleria Girard, C. 1853. Descriptions of new species of reptiles, collected by the U.S. Exploring Expedition, under the command of Capt. Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Second Part. Including the species of batrachians, exotic to North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6: 420-424 [1854 on title page] [421].
Type species:
Cystignathus peronii Duméril & Bibron, 1884 by original designation (as Cystign. peronii). - Lymnodynastes Cope, E.D. 1865. Sketch of the primary groups of Batrachia Salientia. Natural History Review 5: 97-120 [113] [unjustified emendation of Limnodynastes Fitzinger, 1843].
- Heliorana 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] [32].
Type species:
Heliorana grayi Steindachner, 1867 by monotypy. - Ranaster Macleay, W. 1877. The batrachians of the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 135-138 [135].
Type species:
Ranaster convexiusculus Macleay, 1877 by monotypy. - Megistolotis Tyler, M.J., Martin, A.A. & Davies, M. 1979. Biology and systematics of a new limnodynastine genus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from north-western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 135-150 [136].
Type species:
Megistolotis lignarius Tyler, Martin & Davies, 1979 by original designation.
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. [17]
- Schaeuble, C.S., Moritz, C. & Slade, R.W. 2000. A molecular phylogeny for the frog genus Limnodynastes (Anura: Myobatrachidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 16(3): 379-391 [Date published September, 2000] (for synonymy of Megistolotis Tyler, Martin & Davies, 1979)
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Southern New Guinea.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
History of changes
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| 23-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED |