Platyplectrum spenceri (Parker, 1940)

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

Common Names

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; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 69).

Centralian Burrowing Frog (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 109).

Sandy Burrowing Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94).

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 of South Australia and southwestern Queensland. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: 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. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 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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