Genus Philoria Spencer, 1901

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• Philoria Spencer, B. 1901. Two new species of frogs from Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 13: 175-178 [176].

  Type species:

   Philoria frosti Spencer, 1901 by monotypy.
• Kyarranus Moore, J.A. 1958. A new genus and species of leptodactylid frog from Australia. American Museum Novitates 1919: 1-7 [3].

  Type species:

   Kyarranus sphagnicolus Moore, 1958 by original designation.
• Coplandia Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplementary Series 1: 1-61 [Date published September, 1985] [2].

  Type species:

   Kyarranus kundagungan Ingram & Corben, 1975 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. [24] (considered Kyarranus invalid, see Introduction.)
• Knowles, R., Mahony, M., Armstrong, J. & Donnellan, S. 2004. Systematics of sphagnum frogs of the genus Philoria (Anura: Myobatrachidae) in eastern Australia, with the description of two new species. Records of the Australian Museum 56: 57-74 [65-71] (Kyarranus not recognised as a valid genus)

Introduction

Moore (1958) established Kyarranus for two northern species without defining generic differences other than referring to an earlier diagnosis of Philoria, however this diagnosis also included the southern species P. frosti making it unsuitable for diagnosing a genus of northern species and making the genus invalid (see Cogger et al. 1983, Cogger 2014).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

General References

Cogger, H.G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO publishing 7th edition, pp. xxx+1033. [63]

Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. In, Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [24]

Knowles, R., Mahony, M., Armstrong, J. & Donnellan, S. 2004. Systematics of sphagnum frogs of the genus Philoria (Anura: Myobatrachidae) in eastern Australia, with the description of two new species. Records of the Australian Museum 56: 57-74 (molecular phylogeny, key, redescription)

Mahoney, M.J., Hines, H.B., Bradford, T.M., Mahony, S.V., Newell, D.A., Clarke, J.M. & Donnellan, S.C. 2022. A new species of Philoria (Anura: Limnodynastidae) from the uplands of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area of eastern Australia. Zootaxa 5104(2): 209-241

Moore, J.A. 1958. A new genus and species of leptodactylid frog from Australia. American Museum Novitates 1919: 1-7

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