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Litoria longipes (Tyler and Martin, 1977)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Litoria

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Cyclorana longipes Tyler and Martin, 1977, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 17: 271. Holotype: WAM R43258, by original designation. Type locality: "Mitchell Plateau (140° 52′ S, 125° 50′ E), Kimberley Division, Western Australia".

Litoria (Cyclorana) longipes — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362.

English Names

Kimberley Water-holding Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).

Long-footed Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 163; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 43; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 22).

Collared Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).

Blotchy Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).

Variegated Burrowing Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).

Distribution

Kimberley region of Western Australia and through northern Northern Territory to northern Queensland, Australia.

Comment

See account (as Cyclorana longipes) in Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 43. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 22-23.

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