Ranoidea gilleni (Spencer, 1896)

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

Hyla gilleni Spencer, 1896, in Spencer (ed.), Rep. Work Horn Sci. Exped. Cent. Aust., 2: 173. Syntypes: 3 specimens noted; NMV D9827 labelled "type" according to Coventry, 1970, Mem. Natl. Mus. Victoria, 31: 116, who considered this specimen the holotype. Type locality: "Alice Springs", Northern Territory, Australia.

Hyla gilleniNieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 226.

Hyla caerulea gilleniCopland, 1957, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 82: 30; Mertens, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 15-21.

Litoria gilleniCogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 43; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 108.

Pelodryas gilleniWells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 6.

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

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

English Names

Centralian Tree Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 96; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 112; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 44).

Distribution

Confined to the vicinity of the MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Resurrected from the synonymy of Litoria caerulea by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 43, where it had been placed by Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7, 39. In the Litoria caerulea group of Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 108. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 44–45. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 26, provided a polygon distribution map (as Litoria gilleni).

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