Litoria sauroni

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Litoria sauroni
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Litoria
Species:
L. sauroni
Binomial name
Litoria sauroni
Richards and Oliver, 2006 [2]
Synonyms [3]
  • Dryopsophus sauroni (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea sauroni (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)
  • Nyctimystes sauroni (American Museum of Natural History, 2018)

Litoria sauroni is a tree frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. [2] Scientists know it solely from the Kikori Integrate Conservation and Development Project area. Scientists disagree about whether this frog is best placed in the genus Litoria or Nyctimystes . [3] [4]

This frog has red-and-black eyes and nuptial pads on its front feet. [4] [5]

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References

  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Litoria sauroni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T136016A152558316. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T136016A152558316.en . Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Litoria sauroni". Amphibiaweb . Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Nyctimystes sauroni (Richards and Oliver, 2006)". American Museum of Natural History . Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  4. 1 2 Paul Oliver; Stephen J. Richards; Burhan Tjaturadi; Sjoko Iskandar (2007). "A new large green species of Litoria (Anura: Hylidae) from western New Guinea" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1519: 17–26. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1519.1.2 . Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  5. Stephen J. Richards; Paul M. Oliver (2006). "Two new species of large green canopy-dwelling frogs (Anura: Hylidae: Litoria) from Papua New Guinea". Zootaxa. 1295 (1): 41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1295.1.3 . Retrieved August 6, 2020.