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Ranoidea australis (Gray, 1842)
Alytes australis Gray, 1842, Zool. Misc., Part 2: 56. Syntypes: Not designated, but BMNH 1947.2.18.43–44 (formerly 42.2.24.14–15) by museum records, according to Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 19, and Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 35. Type locality: "North coast of Australia"; restricted to "Port Essington, Northern Territory", Australia, by Tyler and Martin, 1975, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 99: 94.
Chiroleptes australis — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 34.
Cheiroleptes australis — Spencer, 1901, Proc. R. Soc. Victoria, 13: 176.
Phractops australis — Fry, 1914, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 1: 204.
Cyclorana australis — Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 18.
Litoria (Cyclorana) australis — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362.
Dryopsophus australis — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40.
Ranoidea australis — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21.
Common Names
Australian Water-holding Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).
Giant Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 155; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 40; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 20).
Northern Snapping-Frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 221; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).
Giant Burrowing Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).
Giant Ground Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).
Distribution
Kimberley Division (Western Australia) through northern Australia as far as the Gulf District of Queensland, Australia.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Australia
Endemic: Australia
Comment
See account (as Cyclorana australis), photograph, and map by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 40. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 20–21. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 135, provided a brief account (as Cyclorana australis), photograph, and polygon distribution map.
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