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.

English 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).

Distribution

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

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. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 35, provided a polygon distribution map.

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