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Crinia bilingua (Martin, Tyler, and Davies, 1980)
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 bilingua — Heyer, Daugherty, and Maxson, 1982, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 95: 426.
Ranidella bilingua — Wells 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.
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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