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Geocrinia Blake, 1973
Geocrinia Blake, 1973, Aust. J. Zool., 21: 142. Type species: Pterophrynus laevis Günther, 1864, by original designation.
Hesperocrinia Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 2. Type species: Crinia leai Fletcher, 1898, by original designation. Synonymy by acclamation. See Tyler, 1985, Herpetol. Rev., 16: 69; Australian Society of Herpetologists, 1987, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 44: 116-121; Tyler, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 45: 152; Holthius, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 45 and decision by ICZN (Anonymous, 1991, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 48: 337-338).
English Names
Ground Froglets (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94).
Distribution
Southeastern and southwestern Australia.
Comment
See Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2, for keys and accounts. Read, Keogh, Scott, Roberts, and Doughty, 2001, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 21: 294-308, reported on relationships among the species and relationship of Geocrinia to Crinia. Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297, considered Geocrinia to be the sister taxon of Assa. Anstis, 2010, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 25: 399-440, reported on the comparative embryology of exotrophic and endotrophic species. Webster and Bool, 2022, Zootaxa, 5154: 127–151, summarized life history information (calls, breeding, larval morphology) and phylogenetics of the taxon.
Contained taxa (3 sp.):
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