Litoria avocalis

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 avocalis

Name

Litoria avocalis (Zweifel, 1958)

Type locality: "east side of Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Group, [Milne Bay Province,] Territory of Papua [=Papua New Guinea], New Guinea, at an elevation of 900 meters (2950 feet)".

Holotype: AMNH 56886.

Synonyms

• Nyctimystes avocalis Zweifel, 1958
• Litoria avocalis — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006

References

• Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 6.
• 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 avocalis . Accessed on 27 Apr 2008.
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Litoria avocalis  (Vulnerable) Downloaded on 27 April 2008. (as Nyctimystes avocalis)

Vernacular names

English: Loud Big-eyed Treefrog