Shea Glenn M, Rowley Jodi J L
Sydney School of Veterinary Science B01, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William St, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia..
Zootaxa. 2018 Apr 9;4407(1):51-64. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.1.3.
The types and type localities of Bombinator australis Gray, 1835, Pseudophryne bibronii Günther, 1859, and Phryniscus albifrons Duméril, Bibron Duméril, 1854, are defined. The nominal type locality for B. australis, Swan River, is considered to be in error. The source of the specimen, Joseph Wright, owned property in the Swan River colony in Western Australia, but later resided in Sydney, the latter locality within the known range of the species. We designate a specimen in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris as lectotype of Pseudophryne bibronii, restricting the type locality of both species to Parramatta, near Sydney, based on the published statements of the collector, François Péron. The holotype of Phryniscus albifrons, a species defined by a painting of a specimen, was likely to have been collected by Jules Verreaux, but the only extant Pseudophryne obtained from Verreaux does not match the type illustration. Verreaux is renowned for the numerous errors in the localities associated with his specimens, and the locality for this specimen, Moreton Bay, Queensland, is likely to be another such error. Resolution of these issues facilitates ongoing taxonomic work on the genus using genetic and morphological data.
确定了1835年的南方铃蟾（Bombinator australis Gray）、1859年的比氏拟蟾（Pseudophryne bibronii Günther）和1854年的白额澳蟾（Phryniscus albifrons Duméril, Bibron Duméril）的类型及模式产地。南方铃蟾的标称模式产地天鹅河被认为有误。标本来源约瑟夫·赖特在西澳大利亚的天鹅河殖民地拥有产业，但后来居住在悉尼，而悉尼是该物种已知分布范围内的后者所在地。我们指定巴黎国家自然历史博物馆的一件标本为比氏拟蟾的选模标本，根据采集者弗朗索瓦·佩龙的公开声明，将这两个物种的模式产地都限定为悉尼附近的帕拉马塔。白额澳蟾的模式标本是根据一件标本的画作确定的，很可能是由朱尔斯·韦罗收集的，但从韦罗那里获得的唯一现存拟蟾与模式插图不符。韦罗以其标本相关产地的众多错误而闻名，这件标本的产地昆士兰莫顿湾很可能是另一个此类错误。解决这些问题有助于利用遗传和形态学数据对该属进行正在进行的分类学研究。
