Ranoidea dahlii (Boulenger, 1896)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Ranoidea > Species: Ranoidea dahlii

Chiroleptes dahlii Boulenger, 1896 "1895", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895: 867. Syntypes: including BMNH 1947.2.18.49 (formerly 1895.11.14.25, by museum records), and UZMO K2002, according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 42. Type locality: "the Daly River, [Northern Territory,] North Australia".

Phractops dahlii — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 522.

Cyclorana dahlii — Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 17.

Litoria dahlii — Tyler, Davies, and King, 1978, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 102: 18.

Ranoidea dahlii — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 6.

Dryopsophus dahlii — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40.

Ranoidea dahlii — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21. 

Common Names

Dahl's Aquatic Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 66; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 160).

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

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

Dahl's Tree Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 104).

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

Northern Lagoon Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 62).

Aquatic Frog (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 74).

Distribution

Extreme northeastern Western Australia in northwestern Northern Territory; isolated population on the southeastern coast of the Gulf of Carpenteria in northwestern Queensland, Australia; possibly extending to southern New Guinea (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Endemic: Australia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Comment

In the Litoria aurea group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 12, and the Litoria aurea complex of Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 100. For discussion see Tyler, Davies, and King, 1978, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 102: 17–24. Burns and Crayn, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 39: 573–579, excluded Litoria dahlii from the Litoria aurea group. Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 74, provided an account for Western Australia and suggested that the range extends to southern New Guinea, but did not specify whether Papua New Guinea, or Papua, Indonesia. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 66–67. Anstis, Rowley, and Altig, 2016, Zootaxa, 4126: 146–150, reported on larval morphology (as Litoria dahlii). Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 160, provided a brief account (as Litoria dahlii), photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 24, provided a polygon distribution map for Australia (as Litoria dahlii).

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