Litoria avocalis (Zweifel, 1958)
Nyctimystes avocalis Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 6. Holotype: AMNH 56886, by original designation. Type locality: "east side of Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux Group, [Milne Bay Province,] Territory of Papua [=Papua New Guinea], New Guinea, at an elevation of 900 meters (2950 feet)".
Litoria avocalis — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362.
English Names
Loud Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality on the east slope of Goodenough Island in the d'Entrecasteaux Group, Papua New Guinea, ca. 900 m elevation.
Comment
Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 159, provided a brief account (as Nyctimystes avocalis). See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Nyctimystes avocalis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 263.
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