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THE Göttingen Museum is rich in Australian frogs. Prof. Keferstein here describes, from the museum specimens, twenty-nine species. He also enumerates nineteen others, recorded as such in the literature of batrachiology, although their specific value appears, in many cases, to be doubtful. The frog-fauna of Australia, according to Prof. Keferstein, bears a great resemblance to that of South America. Some batrachians from Costa Rica are likewise described in this brochure. Five plates of figures are appended. It may be worth mentioning that the authorities of the museum will be glad to exchange some of their superfluous Australian species for other batrachians.
New Batrachians.—Ueber neue und wenig bekannte Batrachier aus Australien und America.
Von W. Keferstein, Prof. in Göttingen. (Berlin, 1868.)
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New Batrachians—Ueber neue und wenig bekannte Batrachier aus Australien und America . Nature 1, 108 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001108c0
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