Platyplectrum ornatum (Gray, 1842)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Platyplectrum > Species: Platyplectrum ornatum

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.

Common Names

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; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 68).

Ornate Frog (Waite, 1929, Rept. Amph. S. Aust.: 256; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

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.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: 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. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 68–69, provided a brief account, photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 39, provided a polygon distribution map.

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