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Pseudophryne occidentalis Parker, 1940
Pseudophryne occidentalis Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 97. Holotype: BMNH 1937.7.22.42, by original designation; now renumbered 1947.2.20.27 according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 27, and Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 405. Type locality: "Bruce Rock, West[ern] Australia".
Kankanophryne occidentalis — Heyer and Liem, 1976, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 233: 12.
Pseudophryne occidentalis — Tyler, 1978, Amph. S. Aust.: 47; Tyler and Davies, 1980, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 104: 20.
English Names
Orange-crowned Toadlet (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 78; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 277).
Western Toadlet (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 114).
Distribution
Inland Southwestern Western Australia (approaching the western coast at Shark Bay and trending southeast from there to near the southern coast south of Balladonia Rock.
Comment
See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 114. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 136–137. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 41, provided a polygon distribution map.
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