Crinia glauerti Loveridge, 1933

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

Crinia glauerti Loveridge, 1933, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 57. Holotype: MCZ 18420, by original designation. Type locality: "Mundaring Weir, about thirty miles northeast of Perth, West Australia".

Ranidella glauertiBlake, 1973, Aust. J. Zool., 21: 141. Heyer and Liem, 1976, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 233: 12.

Crinia glauertiHeyer, Daugherty, and Maxson, 1982, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 95: 426. Read, Keogh, Scott, Roberts, and Doughty, 2001, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 21: 302.

Common Names

Glauert's Froglet (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 286; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 110; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 78).

Rattling Froglet (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 35; Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 30).

Clicking Froglet (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 35; Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 30).

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

Distribution

Southwestern Western Australia: north to the Moore River; south and east to the Pallinup River, and inland to Chi.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Advertisement call described by Littlejohn, 1959, Evolution, 13: 452–468. See account, photographs, and map by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 35. See brief accounts by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 110-111, and Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 30.  See Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 10, for comments on a lost paratype formerly held in the WAM. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 78, provided a brief account, photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 12, provided a polygon distribution map.  

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