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Litoria granti (Boulenger, 1914)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Litoria

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Nyctimantis granti Boulenger, 1914, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 20: 249. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.24.47 (formerly 1913.11.1.151) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 96. Type locality: "Camp VIa, Utakwa [= Octakwa] R., 3000 ft.", Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia.

Nyctimystes granti — Parker, 1936, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 17: 77.

Litoria granti — 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

Grant's Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Distribution

Known from the type locality on the Utakwa River, Eipomek (Papua, Indonesia) and the upper Fly River Catchment (Papua New Guinea).

Comment

For discussion (as Nyctimystes granti) see Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 13. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 163, provided a brief account (as Nyctimystes granti).

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