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Last update: 13 December, 2003

This genus is monotypic and endemic to Australia.

Spicospina Roberts, Horwitz, Wardell-Johnson, Maxson & Mahony, 1997
(Type = Spicospina flammocaerulea Roberts, Horwitz, Wardell-Johnson, Maxson & Mahony, 1997)
Spicospina flammocaerulea Roberts, Horwitz, Wardell-Johnson, Maxson & Mahony, 1997

Distribution: Australia.

Literature
Burbidge, A.A. & J.D. Roberts. 2002. Sunset Frog Recovery Plan. Western Australian Depart. Conserv. Land Manag., Perth, Western Australia.
Read, K., J.S. Keogh, I.A.W. Scott, J.D. Roberts & P. Doughty. 2002. Molecular Phylogeny of the Australian Frog Genera Crinia, Geocrinia, and Allied Taxa (Anura: Myobatrachidae). Mol. Phyl. Evol., 21(2): 294-308.
Roberts, J.D., P. Horwitz, G. Wardell-Johnson, L.R. Maxson & M.J. Mahony. 1997. Taxonomy, relationships and conservation of a new genus and species of myobatrachid frog from the high rainfall regions of southwestern Australia. Copeia, 1997(2): 373-381.
Smith, M.J., J.D. Roberts, T.J. Hammond & R.A. Davis. 2003. Intraspecific Variation in the Advertisement Call of the Sunset Frog Spicospina flammocaerulea (Anura: Myobatrachidae): A Frog with a Limited Geographic Distribution. J. Herpetol., 37(2): 285-291.