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Heleioporus inornatus Lee and Main, 1954
Heleioporus inornatus Lee and Main, 1954, W. Aust. Nat., 4: 157. Holotype: Univ. W. Aust. 155/54, by original designation; now WAM R11428, according to Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 395, and Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 16. Type locality: "Beechina, Western Australia".
Perialia inornatus — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3. Disagreement in gender.
Common Names
Plains Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 210; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 43).
Whooping Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 76).
Brown Whooping Frog (Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 37).
Swamp Burrowing Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94).
Distribution
Southwestern Western Australia: Darling Range from Chidlow south to the vicinity of Margaret River, and along the south east east almost to Albany.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Australia
Endemic: Australia
Comment
See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 57. See brief accounts by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 76–77, and Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 37. See Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 6, for comments on the type series. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 43, 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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