Neobatrachus sutor Main, 1957

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Neobatrachus > Species: Neobatrachus sutor

Neobatrachus sutor Main, 1957, W. Aust. Nat., 6: 24. Holotype: WAM R32892 (formerly Zool. Dept. Univ. W.A. 22/57), according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 23, and Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 399. Type locality: "Gnoolowa Hill, 18 miles north of Mingenew", Western Australia, Australia.

English Names

Shoemaker Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 70; Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.: 84; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 225; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 100; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 94).

Distribution

Southern half of Western Australia (except the Perth region and the southern coast) to the extreme northwest of South Australia and the southwest of the Northern Territory.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See Main, 1965, Frogs S.W. Aust.: 29, and Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 100, for accounts. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 94–95. See Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 9, for comments on the type series. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 36, provided a polygon distribution map. 

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