Litoria foricula (Tyler, 1963)
Nyctimystes foricula Tyler, 1963, Rec. Aust. Mus., 26: 120. Holotype: AMS R15904, by original designation. Type locality: "between 5,000 feet and 6,000 feet in the Kaironk Valley, Schrader Mountains, Australian Trusteeships Territory of New Guinea" (Madang Province, Papua New Guinea).
Litoria foricula — 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
Kaironk Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).
Distribution
Widespread in the central mountain ranges of eastern Papua New Guinea between 144° and 147° E; also in the Rawlinson Mountains of the Huon Peninsula, 1000-2000 m elevation.
Comment
See brief account by Menzies, 1976, Handb. Common New Guinea Frogs: 43 (as Nyctimystes foricula). Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 162, provided a brief account (as Nyctimystes foricula).
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