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Litoria kubori (Zweifel, 1958)

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

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Nyctimystes kubori Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 18. Holotype: AMNH 55913, by original designation. Type locality: "Kubor Mountains near Kup at an elevation of between 5000 and 8000 feet, North-east New Guinea" (Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea).

Litoria kubori — 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

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

Distribution

Widespread in the central highlands from approximately 141° to 147° E, as well as in the mountains of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, 1100-2000 m elevation.

Comment

For discussion (as Nyctimystes kubori) see Tyler, 1963, Rec. Aust. Mus., 26: 123, Menzies, 1976, Handb. Common New Guinea Frogs: 45, and Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 154-155.

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