Ranoidea maculosa (Tyler and Martin, 1977)

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

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 maculosaDuellman, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 177. Agreement in gender.

Litoria (Cyclorana) maculosaFrost, 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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