21-500: Several, including: Cystignathus peronii Dumeril & Bibron, 1841 Limnodynastes krefftii Günther , 1863 Limnodynastes lineatus De Vis , 1884 The striped marsh frog or brown-striped frog ( Limnodynastes peronii ) is a predominantly aquatic frog native to coastal Eastern Australia. It is a common species in urban habitats. The striped marsh frog was described by French naturalists André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron in 1841. Females may reach
42-441: A foamy nest and tadpoles can take 8–12 months to develop. Pale brown, they can be up to 6.5 cm long. In Australia this animal may be kept in captivity with the appropriate permit. However, striped marsh frogs also often colonise garden ponds. Albert G%C3%BCnther Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS , also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914),
63-562: A hidden area in vegetation. They make a "knock" call as if you were to hit a piece of timber with a hammer, during all months of the year (particularly spring-autumn). This call is familiar to anyone in Sydney who has a garden pond. Several studies have used striped marsh frogs to try to understand why worldwide amphibian declines are greater in montane regions. Researchers have found that negative effects of low temperatures and high ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation on tadpole survival are greater when
84-415: A length of 75 millimetres (3.0 in) and males 70 millimetres (2.8 in). They are a shade of brown on the dorsal surface. This colour can be light or dark; they can also be a red-brown on the dorsal surface. There are distinct darker stripes running down the frogs back (giving this species its name), there is normally a paler mid-dorsal stripe running down the back. There is a black "mask" that runs from
105-617: Is very common in coastal NSW, it is not common in Tasmania and listed as rare. This species is the most frequently encountered frog on the east coast of Australia. They are normally the first frog to colonise a garden frog pond and are often victims of backyard swimming pools. They will inhabit ponds, roadside ditches, creeks, dams, flooded areas and any other available water body. The natural prey of this species includes another local species of frog called Bibron's Toadlet . They are tolerant of polluted water . Males call while floating in water from
126-1041: The Linnean Society of London , Gray shifted his interest from botany to zoology . He began his zoological career by volunteering to collect insects for the British Museum at age 15. He officially joined the Zoological Department in 1824 to help John George Children catalog the reptile collection. In some of his early articles, Gray adopted William Sharp Macleay 's quinarian system for classifications of molluscs (1824), butterflies (1824), echinoderms (1825), reptiles (1825), and mammals (1825). In 1840, he took over Children's position as keeper of zoology, which he held for 35 years, publishing well over 1,000 papers. He named many cetacean species , genera , subfamilies , and families . During this period, he collaborated with Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins ,
147-637: The natural history holdings were split off to the Natural History Museum . He published several catalogues of the museum collections that included comprehensive discussions of animal groups and descriptions of new species . He improved the zoological collections to make them amongst the best in the world. Gray was born in Walsall , but his family soon moved to London, where Gray studied medicine. He assisted his father in writing The Natural Arrangement of British Plants (1821). After being blackballed by
168-458: The country in 1855, he met John Edward Gray and Professor Richard Owen at the British Museum. This led to an offer to work at the British Museum in 1857, where his first task was to classify 2000 snake specimens. After the death of John Edward Gray in 1875, Günther was appointed Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum , a position he held until 1895. The major work of his life was
189-516: The eight-volume Catalogue of Fishes (1859–1870, Ray Society ). He also worked on the reptiles and amphibians in the museum collection . In 1864, he founded the Record of Zoological Literature and served as editor for six years. He was one of the editors for the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for more than thirty years. His landmark paper on tuatara anatomy was the first to establish that
210-508: The historian Robert William Theodore Günther (1869–1940). Roberta died shortly after his birth. In 1879 he married again, to Theodora Dowrish née Drake (1863–1944). They had a son Frederic Albert Günther (1883–1953), a merchant; and a daughter Theodora Alberta Günther (1889–1908) who died aged nineteen. Albert Günther is commemorated in the scientific names of many species of reptiles. As well as fish: John Edward Gray John Edward Gray FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875)
231-418: The intent to save them. During his 50 years employed at the British Museum, Gray wrote nearly 500 papers, including many descriptions of species new to science. These had been presented to the museum by collectors from around the world, and included all branches of zoology, although Gray usually left the descriptions of new birds to his younger brother and colleague George. Gray was also active in malacology ,
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#1732869037469252-564: The ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was " Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma ". He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he published a handbook of zoology for students of medicine. His mother moved to England, and when he visited
273-687: The nostril, through the eye and down to the shoulder. This "mask" is followed by a thick light golden line that runs underneath the "mask" and terminates at the end of the mouth. Breeding males develop thick arms, these are used in "wrestling" matches with other frogs, the throat of males is yellow in colour. The belly is white. It is distributed from the southern parts of the Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland , through all of coastal New South Wales , Southern Victoria to southeastern South Australia and Northern Tasmania . Although this species
294-584: The noted natural history artist, in producing Gleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley . The menagerie at Knowsley Hall , near Liverpool , founded by Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby , at the Stanley ancestral seat, was one of the largest private menageries in Victorian England. Gray married Maria Emma Smith in 1826. She helped him with his scientific work, especially with her drawings. In 1833, Gray
315-481: The study of molluscs. He was an associate of entomologist Eliza Fanny Staveley , supporting her research and reading papers she had prepared to the Linnean and Zoological Societies of London. John Edward Gray was buried at St Mary's Church, Lewisham . Gray was one of the most prolific taxonomists in the history of zoology. He described more than 300 species and subspecies of reptiles, only surpassed by his successors at
336-414: The tuatara reptile was not a lizard, but in fact the only living member of an entirely new group of reptiles, which he named Rhynchocephalia . Fossil and genetic evidence have subsequently confirmed Günther's assertion, and the tuatara is now recognised as the only living member of a once diverse lineage that shared a common ancestor with Squamata (lizards and snakes) over 240 million years ago. Günther
357-403: The two stressors are combined. UVB radiation decreased the survival of striped marsh frog tadpoles, but there was an increasingly large mortality rate when low temperatures were involved. UVB radiation caused DNA damage, and as the temperature decreased, the turnover time to repair DNA decreased, so the damage lasted longer. The breeding season is from late winter to early spring. Eggs are laid in
378-495: Was a British zoologist . He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The standard author abbreviation J.E.Gray is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name . The same is used for a zoological name . Gray was keeper of zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874, before
399-670: Was a German-born British zoologist , ichthyologist , and herpetologist . Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger ) with more than 340 reptile species described. Günther was born in Esslingen in Swabia ( Württemberg ). His father was a Stiftungs-Commissar in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for
420-574: Was a founder of what became the Royal Entomological Society . Gray was a friend of coleopterist Hamlet Clark , and in 1856–57 they sailed on Gray's yacht Miranda to Spain, Algeria, and Brazil. Gray was an accomplished watercolourist, and his landscape paintings illustrate Clark's account of their journeys. Gray was also interested in postage stamps . On 1 May 1840, the day the Penny Black first went on sale, he purchased several with
441-775: Was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1867 and served as vice-president 1875–6. He served on the council of the Zoological Society for nearly 40 years (1868–1905). He was elected a fellow of the Linnaean Society in 1877 and was president 1896–1900. He became a naturalised British citizen in 1874. Günther died at Kew Gardens on 1 February 1914. Günther was the son of Friedrich Gotthilf Günther (1800–1835) and Eleonora/Eleonore Louise née Nagel (1806–1899). He married, firstly, in 1868, Roberta Mitchell née McIntosh (1842–1869), sister of William M'Intosh . They had one son,
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