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 text 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 Nyctimystes loveridgei Neill, 1954 . Holotype : MCZ 27823. Type locality: near Taburi , a native village about 2 miles southeast of Rouna Fall , Papua New Guinea . This species is currently incorrectly synonymised with L. genimaculata . Adult males are much larger than L. genimaculata (SVL 39.5–47.5; holotype 41.1 mm, SJR pers. obs.), and the original description mentions a triangular heel lappet that is present only in L. eucnemis ( Figure 4H ). Furthermore , the original description ( Neill 1954 ) notes that the call is a ‘series of five or six raucous notes, like laughter’ which could describe the quite loud series of ‘waah, waah’ growls produced by eucnemis but not the soft ‘ticking’ notes produced by L. genimaculata . We here remove N. loveridgei from the synonymy of L. genimaculata and place it in the synonymy of L. eucnemis .