Species Limnodynastes convexiusculus (MacLeay, 1877)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ranaster convexiusculus Macleay, W. 1877. The batrachians of the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 135-138 [136].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (presumed lost), Mawatta, Binaturi River, near Daru, Papua New Guinea (as Katow).
• Limnodynastes olivaceus De Vis, C.W. 1884. On some new batrachians from Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 65-68 [1885 on title page] [66].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1947.2.18.78, Mackay, QLD.
• Phanerotis novaeguineae van Kampen, P.N. 1909. Die Amphibienfauna von Neu-Guinea, nach der Ausbeute der Neiderlandischen Süd-Neu-Guinea-Expeditionen von 1904–1905 und 1907. Nova Guinea 9: 31-49 [36, pl. 2 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMA 5874, Merauke, Irian Jaya, Indonesia; AM R6693 (three syntypes not found).

 

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]

 

Generic Combinations

• Limnodynastes convexiusculus (MacLeay, 1877).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also southern New Guinea

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, litter, nocturnal, open forest, oviparous, predator, swamp, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Perennially active, seasonal breeder, free-living tadpole.

 

General References

Cogger, H.G. & Lindner, D.A. 1974. Frogs and reptiles. Fauna Survey of the Port Essington District, Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory of Australia. In Frith, H.J. & Calaby, J.H. (eds) CSIRO Div. Wildlf. Tech. Pap. 28: 63–107. (natural history)

 

History of changes

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