Philoria sphagnicola (Moore, 1958)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Philoria > Species: Philoria sphagnicola

Kyarranus sphagnicolus Moore, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1919: 4. Holotype: AMS R16005 according to Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 12. Type locality: "5000 feet on Point Lookout, near Ebor, New South Wales", Australia.

Philoria sphagnicolusCogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 24; Knowles, Mahony, Armstrong, and Donnellan, 2004, Rec. Aust. Mus., 56: 57.

Philoria sphagnicola —  Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 38. Correction of gender. 

English Names

Sphagnum Frog (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 214; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 74; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 249; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 80).

Distribution

Along the eastern escarpment of the Great Dividing Range in northeastern New South Wales from Mount Hyland in the north to Gloucester Tops in the south, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See account by Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 214. Debavay, 1993, Aust. J. Zool., 41: 151–201, reported on developmental stages (as Kyarranus sphagnicolus) 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: 425. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 80–81. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 39, provided a polygon distribution map. 

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