Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Litoria rheocolus Liem, 1974, Mem. Queensland Mus., 17: 152. Holotype: QM J22631, by original designation. Type locality: "Kuranda, 50 km west [actually ca. 33 km by road NW—R.G. Zweifel in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 191] of Cairns, N. Queensland", Australia.

Litoria rheocola — Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 35. Justified gender change in species name.

Mosleyia rheocola — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5.

English Names

Common Mistfrog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222).

Common Mist Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 140; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 70).

Atherton Tableland Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).

Creek Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 140).

Distribution

Northern Queensland from Broadwater Creek National Park to Amos Bay, Australia, below 1180 m elevation.

Comment

In the Litoria nannotis group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 35. See Davies and McDonald, 1979, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 103: 169, for discussion. See Cunningham, 2002, Mem. Queensland Mus., 48: 93-102, for discussion of phylogenetics and distribution. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 261. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 70-71.

External Links

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• For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
• For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
• To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
• For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
• For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
• For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
• for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML