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Assa wollumbin Mahony, Hines, Mahony, Moses, Catalano, Myers & Donnellan, 2021
Mount Wollumbin Hip-pocket Frog | family: Myobatrachidae subfamily: Myobatrachinae genus: Assa |
| Species Description: Mahony MJ, Hines HB, Mahony SV, Moses B, Catalano SR, Myers S, & Donnellan SC. (2021). A new hip-pocket frog from mid-eastern Australia (Anura: Myobatrachidae: Assa). Zootaxa, 5057(4), 451–486. | |
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Etymology: The specific epithet, “wollumbin” refers to the distribution of the frog. Given by the First Nation Traditional Custodians for the Tweed, Wollumbin (also known as Mount Warning) is the name of the mountain that is the central volcanic cone of the Tweed volcano region, and the only place where A. wollumbin is known to be found (Mahony et al. 2021). |
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