Pseudophryne occidentalis Parker, 1940

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Pseudophryne > Species: Pseudophryne occidentalis

Pseudophryne occidentalis Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 97. Holotype: BMNH 1937.7.22.42, by original designation; now renumbered 1947.2.20.27 according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 27, and Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 405. Type locality: "Bruce Rock, West[ern] Australia".

Kankanophryne occidentalisHeyer and Liem, 1976, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 233: 12.

Pseudophryne occidentalisTyler, 1978, Amph. S. Aust.: 47; Tyler and Davies, 1980, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 104: 20.

English Names

Orange-crowned Toadlet (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 78; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 277).

Western Toadlet (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 114).

Distribution

Inland Southwestern Western Australia (approaching the western coast at Shark Bay and trending southeast from there to near the southern coast south of Balladonia Rock.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 114. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 136–137. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 41, provided a polygon distribution map.

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