1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465606603321

Autore

Tyler Michael J

Titolo

Field guide to frogs of western Australia [[electronic resource] /] / M.J Tyler and P. Doughty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Welshpool, : Western Australian Museum, c2009

ISBN

1-920843-91-4

Edizione

[4th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DoughtyP (Paul)

Disciplina

597.9

Soggetti

Frogs - Australia - Western Australia

Tadpoles - Australia - Western Australia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; How the Book Works; The Western Australian Frog Fauna; Basic Frog Biology; Size, Form and Features; Eggs and Spawn; Tadpoles and their Morphology; Regional Comparisons; A Regional approach to Identification; Genus ARENOPHRYNE Tyler, 1976; Arenophryne rotunda; Arenophryne xiphorhyncha; Genus CRINIA Tschudi, 1838; Crinia bilingua: Bilingual Froglet; Crinia deserticola: Chirping Froglet; Crinia fimbriata Doughty: Kimberley Froglet; Crinia georgiana: Quacking Frog; Crinia glauerti: Rattling or Clicking Froglet; Crinia insignifera: Squelching Froglet

Crinia pseudinsignifera: Bleating FrogletCrinia subinsignifera: South Coast Froglet; Genus CYCLORANA Steindachner, 1867; Cyclorana australis: Giant Frog; Cyclorana cryptotis: Hidden-ear Frog; Cyclorana cultripes: Knife-footed Frog; Cyclorana longipes: Long-footed Frog; Cyclorana maini: Sheep Frog or Main's Frog; Cyclorana platycephala: Water-holding Frog; Cyclorana vagitus: Wailing Frog; Genus GEOCRINIA Blake, 1973; Geocrinia alba: White-bellied Frog; Geocrinia leai: Ticking Frog; Geocrinia lutea: Walpole Frog; Geocrinia rosea: Roseate Frog; Geocrinia vitellina: Orange or Yellow-bellied Frog

Genus HELEIOPORUS Gray, 1841Heleioporus albopunctatus: Western Spotted Frog; Heleioporus barycragus: Hooting Frog; Heleioporus eyrei: Moaning Frog; Heleioporus inornatus: Whooping Frog; Heleioporus psammophilus: Sand Frog; Genus LIMNODYNASTES Fitzinger, 1843;



Limnodynastes convexiusculus: Marbled Frog; Limnodynastes depressus: Flat-headed Frog; Limnodynastes dorsalis: Western Banjo Frog; Limnodynastes lignarius: Woodworker or Carpenter Frog; Genus LITORIA Tschudi, 1838; Litoria adelaidensis: Slender Tree Frog; Litoria bicolor: Northern Dwarf Tree Frog; Litoria caerulea: Green Tree Frog

Litoria cavernicola: Cave FrogLitoria coplandi: Rock Frog; Litoria cyclorhyncha: Spotted-thighed Frog; Litoria dahlii: Aquatic Frog; Litoria inermis: Bumpy Rocket Frog; Litoria meiriana: Rockhole Frog; Litoria microbelos: Javelin Frog; Litoria moorei: Motorbike Frog; Litoria nasuta: Striped Rocket Frog; Litoria pallida: Pale Rocket Frog; Litoria rothii: Northern Laughing Tree Frog; Litoria rubella: Little Red Tree Frog; Litoria splendida: Magnificent or Splendid Tree Frog; Litoria staccato: Chattering Rock Frog; Litoria tornieri: Black-shinned Rocket Frog; Litoria watjulumensis

Genus METACRINIA Parker, 1940Metacrinia nichollsi: Forest Toadlet; Genus MYOBATRACHUS Schlegel, 1850; Myobatrachus gouldii: Turtle Frog; Genus NEOBATRACHUS Peters, 1863; Neobatrachus albipes: White-footed Trilling Frog; Neobatrachus aquilonius: Northern Burrowing Frog; Neobatrachus centralis: Desert Trilling Frog; Neobatrachus fulvus: Tawny Trilling Frog; Neobatrachus kunapalari: Wheatbelt Frog; Neobatrachus pelobatoides: Humming Frog; Neobatrachus sutor: Shoemaker Frog; Neobatrachus wilsmorei: Plonking Frog; Genus NOTADEN Gùˆnther, 1873; Notaden melanoscaphus: Northern Spadefoot

Notaden nichollsi: Desert Spadefoot

Sommario/riassunto

Western Australia is home to more than one third of the known frog species in Australia and new ones are still being discovered. This guide presents up to date information on all species, including their distribution and habitat - including the cane toad, which has just arrived in the state. The book also features extensive colour photographs and location maps to assist identification.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823849203321

Autore

Palmer James T (James Trevor)

Titolo

Early medieval hagiography / / James T. Palmer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : ARC Humanities Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-64189-090-8

1-64189-911-5

1-64189-089-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Past imperfect

Classificazione

BO 1820

Disciplina

235/.2

Soggetti

Christian hagiography - History - To 1500

Civilization, Medieval, in literature

Hagiographers - Europe - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

; Chapter 1. Making saints (Up) -- ; Chapter 2. Collecting saints' stories -- ; Chapter 3. Historians and the quest for truth -- ; Chapter 4. Hagiographies and early medieval history.

Sommario/riassunto

Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But what roles did saintly biographies play in shaping the medieval West? Can we understand society and its many post-Roman transformations through them? This short book takes readers from the creation of medieval hagiography, through the ways in which it circulated, to a wide-ranging assessment of different modern methodologies used to interrogate hagiographies, from early twentieth-century source criticism, to the insights gained from gender studies, postmodernism and digital humanities.