Species Uperoleia lithomoda Tyler, Davies & Martin, 1981

Museums

Regional Maps

• Uperoleia lithomoda Tyler, M.J., Davies, M. & Martin, A.A. 1981. Australian frogs of the leptodactylid genus Uperoleia Gray. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 79: 1-64 [43, fig. 9D].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM R61620 ♂, Spillway Bridge, 11.5 km NE of Lake Argyle Tourist Village, Kimberley Division, WA [16°02'S 128°47'E].
• Uperoleia variegata Tyler, M.J., Davies, M. & Martin, A.A. 1981. Australian frogs of the leptodactylid genus Uperoleia Gray. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 79: 1-64 [55, figs 5I, 17C-D].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM R62461 ♂, Gibb River Station, Kimberley Division, WA [16°26'S 126°26'E]
  Comment: recognised as valid species by Cogger, H., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia. pp. 1–56 in Walton, D.W. (ed). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 1. Amphibia and Reptilia. Netley, South Australia : Griffin Press Ltd vi 313 pp. [32].

  Type locality references:

  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.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, burrower, cryptozoic, nocturnal, oviparous, swamp, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Opportunistic breeder in swamps and inundated grassland, free-living tadpole.

 

General References

Tyler, M.J., Davies, M. & Martin, A.A. 1981. Frog fauna of the Northern Territory: new distributional records and the description of a new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 105: 149-154

 

History of changes

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