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Learn more at http://www.smuggled.com/issue-47-pages-57-63.pdf Australasian Journal of Herpetology 47:57-63. Published 9 July 2020. Four new species of frog in the genus Assa from eastern Australia. LSIDURN:LSID:ZOOBANK.ORG:PUB:6A3BBABD-1FEC-47E8-B8DE-F1C370ED0FFD RAYMOND T. HOSER LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:F9D74EB5-CFB5-49A0-8C7C-9F993B8504AE 488 Park Road, Park Orchards, Victoria, 3134, Australia. Phone: +61 3 9812 3322 Fax: 9812 3355 E-mail: snakeman (at) snakeman.com.au 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.

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. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 47:57-63. Published 9 July 2020.