Pseudophryne guentheri Boulenger, 1882

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Pseudophryne > Species: Pseudophryne guentheri

Pseudophryne guentheri Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 279. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.20.18–21 (formerly 1936.12. 3.131 [see Pseudophryne bibronii], 1869.7.27.5, 1858.11.25.59, 1864.10.6.9), according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 27, aand Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 405. Type locality: " Swan River"; "Western Australia"; and "Australia".

Pseudophryne brooksi Loveridge, 1933, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 59. Holotype: MCZ 13025, by original designation. Type locality: "Manjimup, near Pemberton, West[ern] Australia". Synonymy by Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 96.

English Names

Guenther's Toadlet (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 78).

Gunther's Toadlet (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 136).

Günther's Toadlet (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 105; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 274).

Crawling Toadlet (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 113; Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 42).

Distribution

Southwestern Western Australia: from near Shark Bay extending east and inland from Mount Magnet and Booanya near Mount Ragged.

Comment

See comment under Pseudophryne bibronii. See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 113. See brief accounts by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 136–137, and Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 42. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 40, provided a polygon distribution map.

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