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Ranoidea novaehollandiae (Steindachner, 1867)
Cyclorana novae-hollandiae Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 29. Syntypes: NHMW 4716-17 (probable). Type locality: Rockhampton, Queensland [Australia].
Phractops alutaceus Peters, 1867, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 31. Holotype: ZMB 5653 (probable), and possible syntypes are RMNH 3867 and AMNH 23581. Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 43, suggested that the RMNH specimen was likely not part of the type series, although Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 51, disagreed with this assessment. Type locality: "Rockhampton in [Queensland,] O. Australien". Synonymy by Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 523; previously synonymized with Chiroleptes australis by Günther, 1868, Zool. Rec., 4: 145; and Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 269. See comment.
Cyclorana novaehollandiae — Tyler and Martin, 1975, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 99: 97.
Litoria (Cyclorana) novaehollandiae — 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 novaehollandiae — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40.
Ranoidea novaehollandiae — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21.
Common Names
New Holland Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 167; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 140).
Eastern Snapping-Frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222).
Wide-mouthed Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 20).
Distribution
Cape York Peninsula throughout Queensland to northern New South Wales, Australia.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Australia
Endemic: Australia
Comment
In the Cyclorana australis complex; see Tyler and Martin, 1975, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 99: 93-99, who noted that possibly three species were masquerading under this name. According to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 37, evidence, not presented, exists that the name Phractops alutaceus was published before Cyclorana novaehollandiae although no change in usage was suggested. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 20–21. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 140, provided a brief account (as Cyclorana novaehollandiae), photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 16, provided a polygon distribution map (as Cyclorana novaehollandiae).
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