Subspecies Limnodynastes dumerilii dumerilii Peters, 1863

Museums

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• Limnodynastes (Platyplectron) dumerilii Peters, W. 1863. Übersicht der von Hrn. Richard Schomburgk an das zoologische Museum eingesandten Amphibien, aus Buchsfelde bei Adelaide in Südaustralien. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1863: 228-236 [1864 on title page] [235].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB 4727 3 specimens (not found), Loos, 4.5 km W Gawler (as Buchsfelde), SA; ZMB 4728 3 specimens, Loos, 4.5 km W Gawler (as Buchsfelde), SA; AMNH A23590, Loos, 4.5 km W Gawler (as Buchsfelde), SA.

  Type locality references:

  Praite, R. & Tolley, J.C. 1970. Place Names of South Australia. Adelaide : Rigby 203 pp.
• Limnodynastes bibronii Kref[f]t, G. 1865. The frogs of Australia. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1865: 16-20 [16] [error for Limnodynastes dumerilii Peters, 1863].
• Platyplectrum superciliare Keferstein, W. 1867. Ueber einige neue oder seltene Batrachier aus Australien und dem tropischen Amerika. Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 18: 341-361 [346].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZFMK 28331, Australia.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV)

Ecological Descriptors

Alpine, arthropod-feeder, burrower, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, nocturnal, open forest, open heath, oviparous, predator, swamp, tall forest, terrestrial, woodland.

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