Litoria pulchra (Wandolleck, 1911)
Hyla pulchra Wandolleck, 1911 "1910", Abh. Ber. Zool. Anthropol. Ethnograph. Mus. Dresden, 13: 12. Syntypes: MTD D2219 (4 specimens), destroyed in World War II, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 147. Type locality: "Sacksackhütte", Torricelli Mountains, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
Nyctimystes pulchra — Tyler, 1964, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 27: 267.
Nyctimystes pulcher — Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 108.
Litoria pulchra — 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
Spurred Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).
Distribution
Premontane forest of New Guinea on both flanks of the central ranges, from the mamberamo River to the Owen Stnley Mountains, including the north coast ranges, usually around 1500 m elevation.
Comment
For discussion (as Nyctimystes pulchra) see Tyler, 1964, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 27: 267, and Zweifel, 1980, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 165: 400. See brief account by Menzies, 1976, Handb. Common New Guinea Frogs: 43-44. Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364-368, provided records for the Bewani and Hunstein Mountains, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 165-166, provided a brief account (as Nyctimystes pulchra).
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