Ranoidea macki (Richards, 2001)

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

Litoria macki Richards, 2001, Mem. Queensland Mus., 46: 734. Holotype: MZB Amph. 3870, by original designation. Type locality: "Wapoga Alpha mineral exploration camp, West Papua, Indonesia, 3° 08.687′ S, 136° 34.423′ E, 1070 m".

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

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

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the mountainous headwaters region of the Wapoga River in northwestern Papua, New Guinea, Indonesia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Endemic: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Comment

Most similar to Litoria spinifera according to the original publication. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 136-137, provided a brief account and considered this species to be in his Litoria pratti group.

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