Anstisia rosea (Harrison, 1927)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Anstisia > Species: Anstisia rosea

Crinia rosea Harrison, 1927, Rec. Aust. Mus., 15: 279. Syntypes: MMUS (not located by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 14); see discussion by Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 12 and Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 12–13. Type locality: "Pemberton, in the Karri country, 218 miles south of Perth", Western Australia.

Geocrinia roseaBlake, 1973, Aust. J. Zool., 21: 142.

Hesperocrinia roseaWells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 2.

Anstisia rosea — Webster and Bool, 2022, Zootaxa, 5154: 144. 

Common Names

Karri Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 309; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 90).

Roseate Frog (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 51; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 120).

Red Ground Froglet (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94).

Distribution

Southwestern Western Australia: Donnelly River to Shannon and Gardiner River drainages.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See comment under Anstisia lutea. See account (as Geocrinia rosea) by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 51. See brief account (as Geocrinia rosea) by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 120–121. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 90, provided a brief account (as Geocrinia rosea), photograph, and polygon distribution map. Webster and Bool, 2022, Zootaxa, 5154: 127–151, summarized life history information (call, breeding, larval morphology) and phylogenetics of the taxon. 

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