Litoria zweifeli (Tyler, 1967)
Nyctimystes zweifeli Tyler, 1967, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 91: 191. Holotype: SAMA R5426, by original designation. Type locality: "Telefomen [=Telefomin], Western Highlands, New Guinea" (West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea).
Litoria zweifeli — 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
Zweifel's Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).
Distribution
Known from West Sepik, Chimbu, and Southern Highlands Provinces, Papua New Guinea.
Comment
Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 167-168, provided a brief account and suggested that Litoria zweifeli and Litoria granti (both as Nyctimystes) are sibling species. Kraus, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 246-248, provided the records for Chimbu and Southern Highlands Provinces.
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