Abstract

The Trustees have recently received from Dr. T. L. Bancroft several very interesting consignments of Reptiles and Batrachians, collected at Eidsvold on the Burnett River, Queensland. Amongst those deserving special attention are the two species here mentioned, a rare frog, Hyla latopalmata, Günther, and a new variety of Varanus punctatus, Gray, which is described as var. orientalis.

The collections also include a large series of a strikingly coloured form of Limnodynastes dorsalis, Gray, and it has been thought best to deal with them in conjunction with a detailed account of the distribution and variation of this widely distributed frog.

A list of the Reptiles and Batrachians from the Burnett River District has been published in Semon's "Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australiens" by Drs. Böttger and Oudemans. They record forty-two species, twenty-five of which are represented in Dr. Bancroft's collections, together with the following, which up till the present were not recorded from the district.

 
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Bibliographic Data

Short Form
Fry, 1913, Rec. Aust. Mus. 10(2): 17–34
Author
Dene B. Fry
Year
1913
Title
On a Varanus and a frog from Burnett River, Queensland, and a revision of the variations in Limnodynastes dorsalis, Gray
Serial Title
Records of the Australian Museum
Volume
10
Issue
2
Start Page
17
End Page
34
DOI
10.3853/j.0067-1975.10.1913.894
Language
en
Plates
plates i–iii
Date Published
15 March 1913
Cover Date
15 March 1913
ISSN (print)
0067-1975
CODEN
RAUMAJ
Publisher
The Australian Museum
Place Published
Sydney, Australia
Digitized
16 January 2009
Available Online
06 March 2009
Reference Number
894
EndNote
894.enw
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