Litoria coplandi (Tyler, 1968)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Litoria > Species: Litoria coplandi

Hyla coplandi Tyler, 1968, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 15: 716. Holotype: WAM R13722G, by original designation. Type locality: "Inverway Station, Northern Territory", Australia.

Litoria coplandiTyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 352.

Pengilleyia coplandiWells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 6.

English Names

Saxicoline Tree Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 92; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 62).

Copland's Rock Frog (Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.: 65; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 62; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 145; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 50).

Sandstone Frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).

Saxicoline Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 59; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).

Rocky River Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).

Rock Frog (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 72).

Distribution

Northeastern Western Australia and tropical Northern Territory and extending into northwestern Queensland, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

In the Litoria coplandi group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 22. See Tyler, 1968, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 15: 711–727, who sorted out the syntypes of Litoria watjulumensis, which included some syntypes of this species. See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 72. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 50–51. See Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 21–22, for comments on the type series. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 24, provided a polygon distribution map.  

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