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Platyplectrum ornatum (Gray, 1842)
Discoglossus ornatus Gray, 1842, Zool. Misc., Part 2: 56. Holotype: Not designated, but BMNH 1947.2.19.11 (formerly 1842.2.24.17) by museum records, according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 19, and Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 397. Type locality: "North coast of Australia; Port Essington", Northern Territory, Australia.
Perialia ornata — Gray, 1845, in Eyre, J. Exped. Discov. Cent. Aust. 1840–1841, Append.: 407.
Limnodynastes ornatus — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 33.
Platyplectrum marmoratum Günther, 1863, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 11: 27. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.19.12 (formerly 63.6.16.96) by museum records, according to Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 50, and Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 19. Type locality: "Clarence River", New South Wales, Australia. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 262. Considered distinct, without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.
Platyplectrum occidentale Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 90. Holotype: Collection not designated, but presumably ANSP, USNM, or Philadelphia Mus. Type locality: "West Australia". Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 262. Considered distinct; without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.
Borborocoetes ornatus — Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 94, by implication.
Platyplectrum ornatum — Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 345; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 107; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 98.
Opisthodon frauenfeldi Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 9. Syntypes: NHMW (2 specimens); identified as NHMW 4699.1-2 by Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 26. Type locality: "Neu-Süd-wales", Australia; rendered as Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia by Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 30. Synonymy by Günther, 1867, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 20: 54; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 262. Considered distinct, without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.
Platyplectron ornatus — Heyer and Liem, 1976, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 233: 22; Cogger, 1979, Rept. Amph. Aust., Ed. 2: 570. Lack of agreement in gender.
Opisthodon marmoratus — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.
Opisthodon occidentalis — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.
Opisthodon ornatus — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3; 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: 195.
English Names
Ornate Frog (Waite, 1929, Rept. Amph. S. Aust.: 256; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).
Ornate Burrowing Frog (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 193; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 63; Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.: 59; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104; Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 189; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 107; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 98-99).
Ornate Ground Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).
Distribution
Throughout northern half of New South Wales (from coast of far west), Queensland, northern half of Northern Territory, and northeastern Western Australia (Kimberley region), Australia.
Comment
See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 107. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 98–99. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 39, provided a polygon distribution map.
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