Everett's tree frog

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Everett's tree frog
EVERETT'S TIMOR TREEFROG (female) Litoria everetti Meleotegi River, Ermera District, Timor-Leste (USNM 578928).jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Litoria
Species:
L. everetti
Binomial name
Litoria everetti
(Boulenger, 1897)

Everett's tree frog or the Timor tree frog (Litoria everetti) is a species of frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. The scientific name commemorates the British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett.

Distribution and habitat

It is found on the Indonesian islands of on Alor, Sumba, Sawu, and in both Indonesian West Timor and independent Timor-Leste. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.

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References

  1. Djoko Iskandar, Mumpuni (2004). "Litoria everetti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2004: e.T55722A11356899. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T55722A11356899.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.