Ranoidea bella (McDonald, Rowley, Richards, and Frankham, 2016)

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

Litoria bella McDonald, Rowley, Richards, and Frankham, 2016, Zootaxa, 4171: 159. Holotype: QM J74476, by original designation. Type locality: "Lankelly Creek, 10 km NE of Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia (13.8869º N; 143.2673ºE, 540 m asl; . . . )." Zoobank publication registration: FA8A04EB-BFB0-4320-8E6D-CE28857BEB51

Ranoidea bella — Combination change (27 Oct 2016) to bring into line with Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21

English Names

Cape York Graceful Treefrog (original publication). 

Distribution

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

The sister taxon of Ranoidea gracilenta, and previously confused with that species, according to the original publication. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 22, provided a polygon distribution map (as Litoria bella). 

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