Myobatrachus gouldii (Gray, 1841)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Myobatrachus > Species: Myobatrachus gouldii

Breviceps gouldii Gray, 1841, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, 7: 89. Holotype: Not stated; noted as being in the BMNH by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 329; holotype is BMNH 1947.2.20.5 (formerly 41.2.216) by museum records according to Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 93, and Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 404. Type locality: "Western Australia".

Breviceps Heliogabali Gray, 1841, in Grey (ed.), J. Two Exped. Discovery NW and W. Aust., 2(App. E): 436. Holotype: Specimen illustrated in pl. 1, fig. 1 (as Breviceps gouldii on plate). Type locality: "Western Australia". Named coined as a synonym of Breviceps gouldii Gray, 1841. Synonymy by Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 92.

Myobatrachus paradoxus Schlegel In Gray, 1850, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1850: 10. Holotype: Not stated, but given as RMNH 2068 by Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 93; not found by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 22; given as RMNH 2060 by Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 49. Type locality: "Australia; Swan River", Western Australia. Synonymy by Gray, 1850, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1850: 10; Peters, 1867, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 37; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 329.

Myobatrachus gouldii — Gray, 1850, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1850: 10; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 329.

Myiobatrachus paradoxus — Schlegel, 1858, Handl. Dierkd., 2: 59.

Chelydobatrachus gouldii — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 53.

Breviceps (Chelydobatrachus) Gouldii — Peters, 1867, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 37.

Common Names

Turtle Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 68; Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.: 80; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 356; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 91; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 122; Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 40; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 99).

Distribution

Southwestern Western Australia from near Geraldton in the north, south and east to Morowa, Quairading, Southern Cross, and Grass Patch.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 91, for account. See brief accounts by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 122-123, and Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 40. Vertucci, Pepper, Edwards, Roberts, Mitchell, and Keogh, 2017, PLoS One, 12(3: e0173348): 1–18, reported on natural history, range, and mtDNA biogeography suggesting five allopatric groups. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 99, provided a brief account, photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 35, provided a polygon distribution map.

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