Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Pseudophryne coriacea Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 272. Syntypes: Not stated, but presumably originally in ZIUG prior to transfer of this collection to ZFMK; ZFMK 28203-07 (6 specimens) according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 26, who noted that ZFMK 28204 is a Pseudophryne bibronii. Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 101, considered MCZ 1941 a syntype ("cotype"), presumably on exchange from ZIUG. Type locality: "Clarence-River, N[eu].-S[üd]. Wales", Australia. Also described as new by by Keferstein, 1868, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 1868: 326.

Gradwellia coriacea — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 2.

English Names

Red-backed Toadlet (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 76; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 105; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 270).

Keferstein's Toadlet (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 247; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104; ; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 270).

Red-backed Broodfrog Frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223).

Distribution

Coastal northeastern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland, Australia.

Comment

Reviewed by Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 247. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 134-135.

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