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Crinia nimbus (Rounsevell, Ziegeler, Brown, Davies, and Littlejohn, 1994)
Bryobatrachus nimbus Rounsevell, Ziegeler, Brown, Davies, and Littlejohn, 1994, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 118: 173. Holotype: TMAG C1012, by original designation. Type locality: "300 m north of Lake Esperance (146° 46′ E, 43° 13′ 30 S), Hartz Mountains National Park, 920 m", southern Tasmania, Australia.
Crinia nimbus — Read, Keogh, Scott, Roberts, and Doughty, 2001, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 21: 294.
Crinia nimba — Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 110. Incorrect treatment of the species name as an adjective; see comment.
Common Names
Moss Froglet (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 110; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 79).
Distribution
Cool and wet subalpine moorland and adjacent rainforest in southern Tasmania, Australia.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Australia
Endemic: Australia
Comment
The sister taxon of Crinia tasmaniensis according to Read, Keogh, Scott, Roberts, and Doughty, 2001, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 21: 294. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 110-111. The species name "nimbus" is a noun in apposition and does not change with the change in generic gender. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 79, provided a brief account, photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 13, provided a polygon distribution map.
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