Species Cyclorana vagitus Tyler, Davies & Martin, 1981
Wailing Frog
- Cyclorana vagitus Tyler, M.J., Davies, M. & Martin, A.A. 1981. New and rediscovered species of frogs from the Derby-Broome area of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9: 147-172 [148, figs 1-4].
Type data:
Holotype WAM R71037, junction of the Great Northern Highway and the road to Derby, 41 km S of Derby, Kimberley District, WA [124°38'E 17°44'S].
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT, WA: Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, burrower, hummock grassland, nocturnal, oviparous, terrestrial, tussock grassland.
Extra Ecological Information
'flooded grassland and on a flooded spinifex plain'.
History of changes
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