Species Limnodynastes tasmaniensis Günther, 1858

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• Limnodynastes tasmaniensis Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xvi 160 pp. [33].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1947.2.18.96–99, TAS and Australia; BMNH 1947.2.19.1–3 [7 specimens] (however, original description cites only 6 specimens), TAS and Australia.
• Limnodynastes affinis Günther, A. 1863. On new species of batrachians from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 11: 26-28 [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1947.2.19.6, Clarence River, NSW.
• Limnodynastes platycephalus Günther, A. 1867. Additions to the knowledge of Australian reptiles and fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 20(8): 45-68 [54].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1947.2.19.4–5, Adelaide, SA.
• Limnodynastes peronii rugulosus 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 [344].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZFMK 28332–28337, Sydney, NSW.
• Limnodynastes tasmanicus McCoy, F. 1867. On the recent zoology and palaeontology of Victoria. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 20: 175-202 [182] [unjustified emendation of Limnodynastes tasmaniensis Günther, 1858].
• Rana pustulosa Péron, F. 1807. Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes executé par ordre de S.M. l'empereur et roi, sur les Corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste, et la goulette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Tome 1, partie historique. Paris : Arthus Bertrand Vol. 1. [406] [nom. oblit.].

 

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. [20]
• Tyler, M.J. & Morère, J-J. 1988. Section 77 Batrachians. pp. 275-284 in Bonnemains, J., Forsyth, E. & Smith, B. (eds). Baudin in Australian Waters. The artwork of the French voyage of discovery to the Southern Lands 1800–1804. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xi 347 pp. (for Rana pustulosa Péron, 1807)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced to WA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, low open woodland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, open scrub, oviparous, swamp, tall forest, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, free-living tadpole.

 

General References

Littlejohn, M.J. & Martin, A.A. 1974. The Amphibia of Tasmania. pp. 251-289 in Williams, W.D. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania. The Hague : Junk 498 pp.

Martin, A.A. & Tyler, M.J. 1978. The introduction into Western Australia of the frog Limnodynastes tasmaniensis Günther. The Australian Zoologist 19: 321-325 (distribution)

Moore, J.A. 1961. The frogs of eastern New South Wales. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 121: 149-386 (taxonomy, natural history)

Tyler, M.J. 1971. Voluntary control of the shape of the inflated vocal sac by the Australian leptodactylid frog Limnodynastes tasmaniensis. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 95: 49-52

Tyler, M.J. 1978. Amphibians of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government 84 pp. (natural history)

 

History of changes

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