Mixophyes iteratus Straughan, 1968

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Mixophyes > Species: Mixophyes iteratus

Mixophyes iteratus Straughan, 1968, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 93: 54. Holotype: AMS R25929, by original designation. Type locality: "Tweed River, Mount Warning", New South Wales, Australia.

English Names

Giant Barred Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 67; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95).

Giant Barred-frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223).

Southern Barred Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 234; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 126).

Great Barred Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 234).

Distribution

Coastal southeastern Queensland to mid-central New South Wales, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

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: 423. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 126–127. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 35, provided a polygon distribution map.

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