Litoria darlingtoni (Loveridge, 1945)
Hyla darlingtoni Loveridge, 1945, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 58: 53. Holotype: MCZ 25890, by original designation. Type locality: "Mount Wilhelm, 5000-8000 feet, Bismarck Range, Madang Division, [Chimbu Province, Papua] New Guinea".
Nyctimystes flavomaculata Forcart, 1953, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 64: 63. Holotype: NHMB 5820, by original designation. Type locality: "Nordost-Neuguinea, Chimbu-Subdistrikt", given as "Kundiawa, Central Mountains, New Guinea" by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 122. Synonymy by Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 42.
Hyla darlingtoni — Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 42.
Litoria darlingtoni — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 352.
English Names
Darlington's Madang Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 59).
Distribution
Central and eastern mountains of New Guinea, between 141° and 146° E, ca. 1500 m elevation.
Comment
See Tyler, 1968, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 96: 76. In the Litoria peronii group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 39. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 103-104, provided a brief account for this species which he included in his Litoria amboinensis complex.
External Links
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
- For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
- for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML
