Taxonomic re-assessment of the Australian and New Guinean green-eyed treefrogs Litoria eucnemis, L. genimaculata and L. serrata (Anura: Hylidae)
Author
Richards, Stephen J.
South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5000, Australia. Email: Steve. Richards @ samuseum. sa. gov. au, and Conservation International, P. O. Box 1024, Atherton, Queensland 4883, Australia.
Author
Hoskin, Conrad J.
Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia. Email: conrad. hoskin @ anu. edu. au.
Author
Cunningham, Michael J.
School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4072, Qld, Australia. & Department of Zoology, University of the Free State, Private Bag X 13, Phuthaditjhaba, 9866, South Africa. Email: CunninghamMJ @ qwa. ufs. ac. za.
Author
Mcdonald, Keith
Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage, Wet Tropics District Office, P. O. Box 834, Atherton, Australia, 4883. Email: keith. mcdonald @ epa. qld. gov. au.
Author
Donnellan, Stephen C.
South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5000, Australia. Email: Steve. Richards @ samuseum. sa. gov. au, and Conservation International, P. O. Box 1024, Atherton, Queensland 4883, Australia. & Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005.
onnellan@samuseum.sa.gov.au
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Zootaxa
2010
2010-03-08
2391
1
33
46
https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2391.1.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2391.1.2
1175-5326
5308365
Hyla papua
Van Kampen, 1909
.
Holotype
: ZMA 5679, according to
Van Tuijl (1995)
. Type locality:
Lorentz River
,
Papua Province
,
Indonesia
.
This name is currently synonymised with
L. genimaculata
. However re-examination of the
holotype
, and collection of fresh material in the vicinity of the type locality, indicate that this species is distinct from
L. genimaculata
and that the name
L. papua
should be resurrected from its synonymy.
The Lorentz River
population is clearly distinguished from
L
.
genimaculata
by its much smaller size, adult males 30.1–33.6 mm SVL (n = 8,
holotype
= 30.5 mm). A re-description of this species is in preparation but, here, we refrain from resurrecting the name because it is currently preoccupied by
Nyctimystes
[=
Litoria
]
papua
(Boulenger)
, due to the synonymy of
Nyctimystes
within
Litoria
(
Frost
et al
. 2006
)
.