Crinia georgiana Tschudi, 1838

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Crinia > Species: Crinia georgiana

Crinia georgiana Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 38, 78. Holotype: MNHNP 759, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 31. Type locality: "Port du Roi Georges in einem einzigen . . . . Nova Hollandia" = King George's Sound, Western Australia.

Cystignathus georgianusDuméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 416.

Pterophrynus affinis Günther, 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 47. also described as new by Günther, 1864, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 14: 312. Holotype: Presumably BMNH, although not so noted by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 265; Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 80, regarded BMNH 1936.12.3.86 as the holotype; and the holotype reported by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 13, as BMNH 1947.2.20.2, this presumably being a reregistration of Parker's specimen. Type locality: "Western Australia". Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 264.

Crinia ignita Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 95. Holotype: ANSP 10058, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 351. Type locality: "West Australia". Provinsional synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 264.

Crinia stolata Cope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 201. Holotype: ANSP 10061, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 353. Type locality: "West Australia". Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 264-265. Considered a synonym of Crinia signifera ignita by Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7.

Pterophryne georgianaGünther, 1867, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 20: 53.

Crinia georgianaKeferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 263.

Crinia georgiana var. stolataBoulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 264.

Crinia georgiana var. affinisBoulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 265.

Crinia signifera ignitaLoveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7.

Crinia affinis affinisLoveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 26.

English Names

Red-legged Froglet (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).

Tschudi's Froglet (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 288; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 112).

Quacking Frog (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 33; Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 29).

Distribution

Southwestern Western Australia from Gingin in the north inland to Dumbleyung and east to Cape Le Grande and on Mondrain Island.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See accounts, photograph, and map by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 33–34. See brief accounts by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 112–113, and Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 29. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 12, provided a polygon distribution map.

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