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Australasian Journal of Herpetology 47:57-63.
Published 9 July 2020.
Four new species of frog in the genus Assa from eastern Australia.
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RAYMOND T. HOSER
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Received 10 October 2018, Accepted 28 February 2020, Published 9 July 2020.
ABSTRACT
The Australian frog genus Assa Tyler, 1972 has been treated by all publishing authors since 1972 as
monotypic for the type species A. darlingtoni (Loveridge, 1933), originally described as Crinia darlingtoni.
However an audit of the known populations in New South Wales and Queensland found them to be deeply
divergent morphologically and separated by well defined biogeographic barriers of antiquity.
Therefore four new species are formally identified and named according to the rules of the International Code
of Zoological Nomenclature (Ride et al. 1999) as amended online since.
Due to the limited distributions of each, all are vulnerable to extinction and increased measures to ensure the
survival of each should be implemented as a matter of urgency.
Keywords: Taxonomy; amphibia; nomenclature; frog; Australia; Myobatrachidae; Queensland; New South
Wales; Gautam Mukherji; Brian Champion; James Bond; Robert Ekstein, Assa; darlingtoni; new species;
guatammukherjii; brianchampioni; jamesbondi; roberteksteini.
