Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Philoria loveridgei Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 60. Holotype: BMNH 11933.4.8.6, by original designation; renumbered BMNH 1947.2.19.94 according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 24, and M.J. Tyler in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 395. Type locality: "McPherson Range, 3-4,000 ft., S[outh]. Queensland", Australia. Shea, 2005, Mem. Queensland Mus., 51: 524, discussed the itinerary of the collector and suggested that the type locality lies within Lamington National Park, within that part of the park that is within the known distribution of the species.

Kyarranus loveridgei — Moore, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1919: 7.

Philoria loveridgei — Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 24. Knowles, Mahony, Armstrong, and Donnellan, 2004, Rec. Aust. Mus., 56: 57.

English Names

Loveridge's Frog (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 216; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 74; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 247; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 78).

Masked Mountain-frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223).

Distribution

Rainforest of extreme southeastern Queensland borderlands and adjacent New South Wales, Australia.

Comment

See account by Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 216. Knowles, Mahony, Armstrong, and Donnellan, 2004, Rec. Aust. Mus., 56: 65, noted some incertainty as to whether the holotype is conspecific with populations currently referred to as Philoria loveridgei or Philoria richmondensis. 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: 424. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 78-79.

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