Nyctimystes

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Nyctimystes
Species (33): N. avocalis – N. bivocalis – N. calcaratus – N. cheesmani – N. cryptochrysos – N. daymani – N. disruptus – N. eucavatus – N. fluviatilis – N. foricula – N. granti – N. gularis – N. hanwara – N. humeralis – N. intercastellus – N. kubori – N. kuduki – N. latratus – N. montanus – N. myolae – N. narinosus – N. obsoletus – N. ocreptus – N. oktediensis – N. papua – N. perimetri – N. persimilis – N. pulcher – N. semipalmatus – N. trachydermis – N. traunae – N. tyleri – N. zweifeli

Name

Nyctimystes Stejneger, 1916: 85

Type species: Nyctimantis papua Boulenger, 1897, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

Stejneger, L. 1916: New generic name for a tree-toad from New Guinea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 29: 85. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page.
Kraus, F. 2012. Identity of Nyctimystes cheesmani (Anura: Hylidae), with description of two new related species. Zootaxa 3493: 1–26. Preview Reference page.
Kraus, F. 2013. Morphological data show that Hyla dayi Gunther, 1897 (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) should never have been assigned to Nyctimystes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 56(2): 581–587. BHL Reference page.
Richards, S.J. 2024. A new species of torrent-breeding treefrog (Pelodryadidae, Nyctimystes Stejneger) from the mountains of New Guinea with comments on the distribution of the genus. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 72: 268–279. DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2024-0022 Reference page.
Donnellan, S.C., Mahony, M.J., Esquerré, D., Brennan, I.G., Price, L.C., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Günther, R., Monis, P., Bertozzi, T., Keogh, J.S., Shea, G.M. & Richards, S.J. 2025. Phylogenomics informs a generic revision of the Australo-Papuan treefrogs (Anura: Pelodryadidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(2): zlaf015. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf015 Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Big-eyed Treefrogs