ECOJAWY, SYSTEMATICS A 6 D EVOLUTIOX OF AUSTRALIAN FROGS 39
Wort in eastern Australia is revealing many more epeciea in some
genera so that wheii the revisions are finally published the frog fauna,
m reflected in the number of species recognised, may easily be half aa
large again aa it is now. Because of this incomplete knowledge the fauna
TABLE I
Families and genera of frqp recorded from Australia with the
number of species & p r m n t rewgnieed in each genus
Family
Genus
No. of
&nerd Distribution
Species
Neobdmchue
Lirnlaodynaetea
Philoria
Kyarranue
Noladen
Qlatmtiu
U p o k i a
Criniu
€'8ezldophy(ne
Nortk1-e-t Q U W X & L I ~
Auatralia generally
North-east Queemland
North-east Queensland
Coeetd Queensland,
Northern N.S.W.
From Central eeet,
Coaetal end Northward
Northern, coastal and
interior
Etaatern ooastd
Central eaat coest
weetern comer
interior
North-& Qucnsnsland
South-mt Queeneland
muthwerd, muthSouthern, coastal and
Australia generally
Southern mountains
Eeetern mountains
Northern interior
Northern end Northweetern aoastal
Northern and Eaetern
interior
Australia generally
except interior
South-western corner
Fer south-weatern
Western Auetralia
Southern Auetralia
generally
1
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2
3
2
2
1
2
8
1
6
6
8
1
2
3
3
2
18
1
1
9
diversity is best treated at the generic level as was done by Main et al.
(1959), whose illustration (Fig. 1) shows areas of equal generic frequency
for Awtralia. Despite the increase in number of genera recorded the
picture presented by the figure has not changed and the central and