Crinia bilingua (Martin, Tyler, and Davies, 1980)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Crinia > Species: Crinia bilingua

Ranidella bilingua Martin, Tyler, and Davies, 1980, Copeia, 1980: 94. Holotype: WAM R59775, by original designation. Type locality: "swamp on the E side of Spillway Creek at Spillway Bridge (16° 01′ 47" S, 128° 47′ 08" E), 11.5 km by road N of the Lake Argyle Tourist Village, Kimberley Division, Western Australia".

Crinia bilinguaHeyer, Daugherty, and Maxson, 1982, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 95: 426.

Ranidella bilinguaWells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 4.

English Names

Bleating Froglet (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Bilingual Froglet (Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.: 92; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 103; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 284; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 30; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 112).

Bilingual Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Ratchet Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Riparian Froglet (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Rattling Froglet (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Distribution

Permanent streams in the Kimberley Division, Western Australia, and northern Northern Territory to extreme northwestern Queensland, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See account, photograph, and map by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 30. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 112–113. See Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 16, for comments on the type series. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 11, provided a polygon distribution map. 

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