Heleioporus albopunctatus Gray, 1841

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Heleioporus > Species: Heleioporus albopunctatus

Heleioporus albo-punctatus Gray, 1841, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, 7: 91. Holotype: Not stated; BMNH 1947.2.19.19 (formerly 1841.2.211) by museum records and according to Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 39, and Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 394, and Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 15. Type locality: "Western Australia".

Heleioforus alleopunctatusKrefft, 1865, Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania, 1865: 17. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Common Names

Western Spotted Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 204; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 54; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 74; Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 34).

White-spotted Burrowing Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94).

Distribution

Restricted to coast and ranges of southwestern Australia from the Murchison River south to Tambellup and east to Frank Hann National Park, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 54. See brief accounts by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 74–75, and Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 34. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 41, provided a brief account, photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 18, provided a polygon distribution map.

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