"Litoria papua" (Van Kampen, 1909)
Hyla papua Van Kampen, 1909, Nova Guinea, 9: 33. Holotype: ZMA 5679, according to Van Tuijl, 1995, Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amsterdam, 14: 127. Type locality: "Noord-Fluss, bei Bivak-Insel", Lorentz River, Southern Lowlands, New Guinea (Indonesia). A secondary homonym of Nyctimantis papua Boulenger
Litoria papua — Richards, Hoskin, Cunningham, McDonald, and Donnellan, 2010, Zootaxa, 2391: 42. Disclaimed resurrection of name, although noted species status.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Provisional (see comment): Lorentz River area of the southern lowlands of Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia.
Comment
Noted as being a distinct species from Litoria genimaculata by Richards, Hoskin, Cunningham, McDonald, and Donnellan, 2010, Zootaxa, 2391: 33-46, in whose synonymy it had been placed by Tyler, 1964, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 27: 266. The resurrection of the species name was disclaimed pending either coining of a replacement name or, presumably, the partition of nominal Litoria. Also some specimens were referred to in this paper as "Hyla 'papua'" from various localities in Papua, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea, suggesting that the delimitation of this species is not clear (DRF).
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