Litoria gilleni (Spencer, 1896)
Hyla gilleni Spencer, 1896, in Spencer (ed.), Rep. Work Horn Sci. Exped. Cent. Aust., 2: 150. Syntypes: 3 specimens noted; NMV D9827 labelled "type" according to Coventry, 1970, Mem. Natl. Mus. Victoria, 31: 116, who considered this specimen the holotype. Type locality: "Alice Springs", Northern Territory, Australia.
Hyla gilleni — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 226.
Hyla caerulea gilleni — Copland, 1957, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 82: 30. Mertens, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 15-21.
Litoria gilleni — Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 43. Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 108.
Pelodryas gilleni — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 6.
English Names
Centralian Tree Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 96; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 112; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 44).
Distribution
Confined to the vicinity of the MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, Australia.
Comment
Resurrected from the synonymy of Litoria caerulea by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 43, where it had been placed by Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7, 39. In the Litoria caerulea group of Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 108. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 44-45.
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