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Heleioporus barycragus Lee, 1967

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Heleioporus

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Heleioporus barycragus Lee, 1967, Aust. J. Zool., 15: 390. Holotype: WAM R21869, by original designation. Type locality: "Boya", Western Australia.

Philocryphus barycragus — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.

English Names

Yellow-wart Burrowing Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94).

Western Marsh Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 208).

Hooting Frog (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 55; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 74).

Western Hooting Frog (Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 35).

Distribution

Darling Range and foothills east of Perth, Western Australia.

Comment

See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 55. See brief accounts by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 74-75, and Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 35.

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