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Philoria knowlesi Mahony, Hines, Mahony, and Donnellan, 2022
Philoria knowlesi Mahony, Hines, Mahony, and Donnellan in Mahony, Hines, Bertozzi, Bradford, Mahony, Newell, Clarke, and Donnellan, 2022, Zootaxa, 5104: 229. Holotype: QM J95824, by original designation. Type locality: "at 820 m elevation on Ballow Creek, Mount Barney National Park, south-eastern Qld, [-28.2582, 152.6317]". Zoobank publication registration: D61A9AA9-6081-4BFC-AF2D-C1C0D708D9B0
Common Names
Mt Ballow Mountain Frog (original publication).
Distribution
Endemic to Australia; occurs in montane areas above 690 m elevation straddling the Queensland–New South Wales border, from Levers Plateau in the east to Drummer Gully (Mount Barney National Park, Queensland) in the west.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Australia
Endemic: Australia
Comment
Advertisement call, comparative morphology, and molecular markers detailed in the original publication, where is was considered to be the sister taxon of Philoria loveridgei. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 38, provided a polygon distribution map.
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