Australian Amphibia in the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The necessity of identifying the Harvard Expedition material involved a thorough reexamination of all earlier Australian accessions to the Museum collection, and an intensive study of the status of many recently described species. It revealed that the Museum now possesses all of the 20 genera inhabiting Australia, and 78 of the 88 species or races.

In view of the relative comprehensiveness of this material the present paper has been written witha view to placing at the disposal of our Australian colleagues, who rendered such generous assistance to the Harvard party during the expedition, the wealth of locality data which would otherwise remain inaccessible to them among the records of our card-index cabinets. Moreover, the study of this material has resulted in a clearer conception of the status of many species and involves numerous changes in taxonomy which are re ferred to below.

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