Philoria richmondensis Knowles, Mahony, Armstrong, and Donnellan, 2004

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Philoria > Species: Philoria richmondensis

Philoria richmondensis Knowles, Mahony, Armstrong, and Donnellan, 2004, Rec. Aust. Mus., 56: 70. Holotype: AMS R152707, by original designation. Type locality: "Bungdoozle Road, Richmond Range National Park, New South Wales, 28° 39′ 19 S, 152° 42′ 38 E".

English Names

Richmond Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 80).

Distribution

Known only from the Richmond Range and Yabbra Range, New South Wales, Australia, above 600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

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.: 80–81. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 38, provided a polygon distribution map. Bolitho and Newell, 2022, Sci. Rep. (Nature, London), 12(20215): 1–8, provided niche model maps as part of a discussion of the substantial range contractions expected under global warming. 

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