#crinia

[snakebusters]

Happy International Earth Day (today) along with some wicked frog images of the rarely seen tiny frog species Crinia sloani and the moderately well-known Limnodynastes fletcheri, both with quite specific habitat requirements in the face of similar species in the same genera that are more broad ranging.

Images taken from the field in far north Victoria.

Learn more about the relevant species in the big papers of 2020 including at:

The Australasian Journal of Herpetology is Australia's best known scientific journal dealing with reptiles, taxonomy and other matters of pu

and

The Australasian Journal of Herpetology is Australia's best known scientific journal dealing with reptiles, taxonomy and other matters of pu

[snakecatchers]

crinia fiacummingae is a great new species of frog formally discovered and named this week (June 2023). Learn more at: Hoser, R. T. 2023 Four new species of Crinia Tschudi, 1838, subgenus Ranidella Girard, 1853 from south-east, Australia. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 63:38-47. Available in hard copy at: http://www.herp.net and https://www.smuggled.com/AJH-63-Pages-38-47.pdf

[frogs-from-bogs]

Crinia tasmaniensis by Ryan Francis

[frogs-are-awesome]

Clicking Froglet (Crinia glauerti) by Stephen Zozaya Margaret River, Western Australia.

[snakemanaustralia]

Crinia parainsignifera, from Kangaroo Ground, Victoria, near Melbourne, Australia photographed by the Snakeman, Raymond Hoser. He has been the snake man for decades.

[snakebusters]

Crinia parainsignifera from Broadford, Victoria

[snakecatchers]

There are now several species which were all formerly treated as just Crinia signifera. Most of the names are new to science (those in blue), having been formally named by the Snakeman, Raymond Hoser. aberrans is currently treated as a subspecies of C. signifera, although full species is probably more appropriate. the other four names in blue above, are all good species! From: Hoser, R. T. 2023 Four new species of Crinia Tschudi, 1838, subgenus Ranidella Girard, 1853 from south-east, Australia. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 63:38-47. Available in hard copy at: http://www.herp.net and

https://www.smuggled.com/AJH-63-Pages-38-47.pdf

[snakecatchers]

The newly discovered Crinia fiacummingae Hoser, 2023 from central Victoria. Previously confused with Crinia signifera