Litoria vivissimia Oliver, Richards, and Donnellan, 2019

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Litoria > Species: Litoria vivissimia

Litoria vivissimia Oliver, Richards, and Donnellan, 2019, Zootaxa, 4609: 474. Holotype: SAMA R71127, by original designation. Type locality: "Hides Ridge, Hela Province, Papua New Guinea (5.9470°S, 142.7455°E; 2250 m a.s.l.)". Zoobank publication registration: 73CBC38B-8684-4EFC-B527-1220483394BA 

English Names

Montane Pinocchio Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from a single locality on Hides Ridge, Hela Province, Papua New Guinea, in the karstic Southern Fold Mountains that run along the southern edge of New Guinea’s Central Cordillera. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

Closely related to Litoria pronimia and Litoria pinocchio according to the original publication. 

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