Heleioporus barycragus Lee, 1967

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Heleioporus > Species: Heleioporus barycragus

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

Philocryphus barycragusWells 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.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: 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. See Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 5–6, for comments on the type series. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 18, provided a polygon distribution map. 

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