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Ranoidea maculosa (Tyler and Martin, 1977)
Cyclorana maculosus Tyler and Martin, 1977, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 17: 269. Holotype: SAMA R14719, by original designation. Type locality: "Daly Waters, Northern Territory", Australia.
Cyclorana maculosa — Duellman, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 177. Agreement in gender.
Litoria (Cyclorana) maculosa — 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 maculosus — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40.
Ranoidea maculosa — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21.
Common Names
Daly Waters Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 164; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 22; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 138).
Olive Water-holding Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).
Distribution
Southwestern coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria to central Northern Territory and northwestern Queensland, Australia.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Australia
Endemic: Australia
Comment
See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 22–23. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 137, provided a brief account (as Cyclorana maculosa), photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 15, provided a polygon distribution map (as Cyclorana maculosa).
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