Assa darlingtoni (Loveridge, 1933)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Assa > Species: Assa darlingtoni

Crinia darlingtoni Loveridge, 1933, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 57. Holotype: MCZ 18390, by original designation. Type locality: "from between 3,000 and 4,000 feet in the Queensland National Park, MacPherson Range, Queensland", Australia.

Assa darlingtoniTyler, 1972, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 47: 200.

English Names

Pouched Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 42; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 103; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).

Hip-pocket Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 103; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 346).

Marsupial Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 103; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 346).

Australian Marsupial Frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222).

Distribution

Mountainous ranges on the extreme northeastern border of New South Wales into adjacent southeastern Queensland, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 72-73. Mahony, Hines, Mahony, Moses, Catalano, Myers, and Donnellan, 2021, Zootaxa, 5057: 451–486, reported on molecular phylogeography of the isolated populations and commented on their conservation status. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 7, provided a polygon distribution map. 

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