Litoria lakekamu Richards and Bickford, 2023

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

Litoria lakekamu Richards and Bickford, 2023, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 42: 45. Holotype: SAMA R70113, by original designation. Type locality: "Sapoi River adjacent to Ivimka Research Station (7.735° S, 146.496° E; 120 m asl), Lakekamu Basin, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea". Zoobank publication registration: A03DED9B-29EC-4477-9B08-7B78FF6D961E

English Names

Lakekamu Pygmy Treefrog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the Lakekamu Basin on the southern fringe of Papua New Guinea’s central cordillera, Gulf  Province, Papua New Guinea. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

Comparative adult morphology and advertisement call detailed in the original publication. 

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