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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..
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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