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. 

English Names

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

Karri Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 309).

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

Distribution

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

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. 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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