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Platyplectrum spenceri (Parker, 1940)
Limnodynastes spenceri Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 50. Holotype: BMNH 1897.10.27.68, by original designation; renumbered BMNH 1947.2.18.79, 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: "Alice Springs, C[endtral]. Australia", Northern Territory, Australia.
Platyplectron spenceri — Heyer and Liem, 1976, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 233: 22; Cogger, 1979, Rept. Amph. Aust., Ed. 2: 570.
Opisthodon spenceri — 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.
Platyplectrum spenceri — Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 107; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 98–99..
English Names
Sandy Burrowing Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94).
Spencer's Burrowing Frog (Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.: 60; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 196; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 98).
Centralian Burrowing Frog (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 109).
Distribution
Arid areas of of Western Australia (from Pilbara south to the Gascoyne region and isnland to Menzies and Minilya Station) through southern Northern Territory to the northeast f South Australia.
Comment
See accounts by Tyler, 1978, Amph. S. Aust.: 63–65, and 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.
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