Ranoidea kroombitensis (Hoskin, Hines, Meyer, Clarke, and Cunningham, 2013)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Ranoidea > Species: Ranoidea kroombitensis

Litoria kroombitensis Hoskin, Hines, Meyer, Clarke, and Cunningham, 2013, Zootaxa, 3646: 429. Holotype: QM J91640, by original designation. Type locality: "Kroombit Ck, Kroombit Tops (24° 23′ 03″ S, 151°00′ 05″ E), south-east Queensland", Australia. 

Dryopsophus kroombitensis — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40. 

Ranoidea kroombitensis — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21. 

English Names

Kroombit Treefrog (original publication). 

Distribution

Kroombit Tops, southwest of Gladstone, an isolated northern outlier to the temperate wet forests of south-east Queensland/north-east New South Wales, Australia, 500 to 900 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

In the Litoria phyllochroa group and most similar to Litoria personaiana and Litoria barringtonensis according to the original publication. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 27, provided a polygon distribution map (as Litoria kroombitensis). Cutajar and Rowley, 2022, J. Herpetol., 56: 318–323, provided dot- and polygon maps (as Litoria kroombitensis). 

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