Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Litoria latopalmata Günther, 1867

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Species Litoria latopalmata Günther, 1867

Broad-palmed Frog, Gunther's Frog

  • Litoria latopalmata Günther, A. 1867. Additions to the knowledge of Australian reptiles and fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 20: 45-68 [55].
    Type data:
     Syntype(s) BMNH 1947.2.24.27–28, Bowen (as Port Denison), QLD.
  • Hyla palmata Slevin, J.R. 1955. Notes on Australian amphibians. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 28: 355-392 28 figs [383] [lapsus for Litoria latopalmata Günther, 1867].

 

Distribution

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales
    • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, low open woodland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, open scrub, predator, swamp, tall forest, tall shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, free-living tadpole, breeds in swamps.

 

General References

Copland, S.J. 1957. Presidential address. Australian tree frogs of the genus Hyla. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 82: 9-108 (taxonomy)

Moore, J.A. 1961. The frogs of eastern New South Wales. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 121: 149-386 (taxonomy, natural history)

Tyler, M.J. 1968. A taxonomic study of hylid frogs of the Hyla lesueuri complex occurring in north-western Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 15: 711-727 (taxonomy)

Tyler, M.J. 1969. A synopsis of the frogs of the genus Hyla of northwestern Australia, with the description of a new species. Records of the South Australian Museum 16: 1-11 (taxonomy)