Philoria frosti Spencer, 1901
Philoria frosti Spencer, 1901, Proc. R. Soc. Victoria, 13: 176. Syntypes: NMV (7 specimens): NMV D8497 (last remaining syntype) designated lectotype by Coventry, 1970, Mem. Natl. Mus. Victoria, 31: 116. Type locality: "Mount Baw Baw, Victoria", Australia.
English Names
Baw Baw Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 73; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104; ; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 243; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 80).
Distribution
Higher elevations (above 1160 m) of the Baw Baw Plateau, Victoria, Australia.
Comment
See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 423. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 80-81.
External Links
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- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
- For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
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