Litoria littlejohni White, Whitford, and Mahony, 1994

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

Litoria littlejohni White, Whitford, and Mahony, 1994, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 114: 4. Holotype: AMS R95802, by original designation. Type locality: "Walker's Ridge Road (Joe's Point), Watagan State Forest, approx. 90 km N of Sydney, N[ew]. S[outh]. W[ales]. (33° 02′ 10″ S, 151° 08′ 00″ E)".

English Names

Littlejohn's Tree Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 86).

Heath Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 40).

Distribution

Watagan Mountains and Woronora Plateau of northeastern New South Wales, Australia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Confused with Litoria jervisiensis in earlier literature. In the Litoria ewingii complex of Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 82. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 40–41. Mahony, Moses, Mahony, Lemckert, and Donnellan, 2020, Zootaxa, 4858: 201–230, assigned the former southern populations to the new species, Litoria watsoni and provided a comparison of calls and morphology, beyond the molecular differences. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 27, provided a polygon distribution map.

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