Species Litoria dahlii (Boulenger, 1896)
Dahl's Aquatic Frog, Dahl's Frog
- Chiroleptes dahlii Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Descriptions of a new snake and a new frog from north Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1895: 867 [867, pl. 49 fig. 2].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1947.2.18.49, Daly River, NT; UZMO K2002, Daly River, NT.
Generic Combinations
- Litoria dahlii (Boulenger, 1896).
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Ecological Descriptors
Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, low woodland, noctidiurnal, predator, swamp, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Free-living tadpole, anuriphagous.
General References
Parker, H.W. 1940. The Australasian frogs of the family Leptodactylidae. Novitates Zoologicae 42: 1-106 (taxonomy)
Tyler, M.J., Davies, M. & King, M. 1978. The Australian frog Chiroleptes dahlii Boulenger: its systematic position, morphology, chromosomes and distribution. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 102: 17-24
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