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Crinia sloanei Littlejohn, 1958

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Crinia

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Crinia sloanei Littlejohn, 1958, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 83: 225. Holotype: AMS R19610, according to Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 12. Type locality: "temporary pond, on the south bank of the Murray River by the Main Traffic and Railway Bridge adjacent to Tocumwal on Murray, New South Wales", Australia.

Ranidella sloanei — Blake, 1973, Aust. J. Zool., 21: 141. Heyer and Liem, 1976, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 233: 12 ; Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 4.

Crinia sloanei — Heyer, Daugherty, and Maxson, 1982, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 95: 426. Read, Keogh, Scott, Roberts, and Doughty, 2001, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 21: 302..

English Names

Sloane's Froglet (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 297; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 110).

Distribution

Central New South Wales to northern Victoria, Australia.

Comment

See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 110-111.

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