Spicospina flammocaerulea Roberts, Horwitz, Wardell-Johnson, Maxson, and Mahony, 1997

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Spicospina > Species: Spicospina flammocaerulea

Spicospina flammocaerulea Roberts, Horwitz, Wardell-Johnson, Maxson, and Mahony, 1997, Copeia, 1997: 374. Holotype: WAM R119457, by original designation. Type locality: "Mountain Road, 30 km NE Walpole, Western Australia".

English Names

Sunset Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 128).

Distribution

Known only from three localities 24–30 km northeast of Walpole, on the south coast of Western Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Intraspecific variation in the advertisement call discussed by Smith, Roberts, Hammond, and Davis, 2003, J. Herpetol., 37: 285–291. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 464. See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 117. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 130–131. See Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 16–17, for comments on the type series. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 42, provided a polygon distribution map.  

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