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
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2391.1.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2391.1.2
1175-5326
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Hyla eucnemis
Lönnberg, 1900
.
Two
syntypes
: BM 1947.2.23.87, according to
Condit (1964)
, ZIUU (no number). Type locality: Sattelberg, Huon Peninsula,
Papua New Guinea
.
A larger species (males>
40 mm
, females to at least
67 mm
) with extremely pronounced dermal fringes on limbs and a large, triangular lappet on the heel. The advertisement call is a series of growls quite unlike the ticking sound produced by
L. genimaculata
(
Zweifel, 1980
;
Figure 4A
).