Litoria papua

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Hylidae
Subfamilia: Pelodryadinae
Genus: Litoria
Species: Litoria papua

Name

Litoria papua (Boulenger, 1897)

Type locality: "Mount Victoria, Owen Stanley Range, [Papua] New Guinea".

Lectotype: BMNH 1896.10.31.50. leg. A.S. Anthony. (designated by Zweifel 1983).

Synonyms

• Nyctimantis papua Boulenger, 1897
• Nyctimystes papua — Stejneger, 1916
• Hyla papua — Noble, 1931
• Litoria papua — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006

References

• Boulenger, 1897, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 19: 12.
• Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362.
• Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Litoria papua . Accessed on 28 Apr 2008.
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Litoria papua  (Data Deficient) Downloaded on 27 April 2008. (as Nyctimystes papua)

Vernacular names

English: Papua Big-eyed Treefrog