Austrochaperina pluvialis (Zweifel, 1965)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Austrochaperina > Species: Austrochaperina pluvialis

Sphenophryne pluvialis Zweifel, 1965, Am. Mus. Novit., 2214: 6. Holotype: AMNH 54195, by original designation. Type locality: "Speewah, elevation 1500 feet, Queensland", Australia.

Austrochaperina pluvialisZweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 9.

Asterophrys pluvialis — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 465. 

English Names

White-browed Chirper (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222).

Flecked Land Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 92).

Rain Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 362; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 100).

Distribution

Rainforests of the eastern coast of Cape York Peninsula from south of Cooktown to north of Townsville, northeastern Queensland, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See account by Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 362. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 100–101. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 8, provided a polygon distribution map.

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