Litoria iris (Tyler, 1962)
Hyla iris Tyler, 1962, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 14: 253. Holotype: BMNH 1961.1206, by original designation. Type locality: "Bamna, near Nondugl (Lat. 5° 49′ S; Long. 144° 44′ E) at 6,500 feet", Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
Litoria iris — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 353.
English Names
Western Highland Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 59).
Distribution
Central Dividing Range of Papua (Indonesia) and Papua New Guinea as well as north of that range in the Hunstein Mountains of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
Comment
See Tyler, 1968, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 96: 111, and Menzies, 1993, Aust. J. Zool., 41: 225-255. In the Litoria nigropunctata group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 37. See brief account by Menzies, 1976, Handb. Common New Guinea Frogs: 32-33. Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364-368, provided a record for East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea and characterized the range. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 143-144, provided a brief account and included this in his Litoria iris group.
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