Litoria paraewingi Watson, Loftus-Hills, and Littlejohn, 1971

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

Litoria paraewingi Watson, Loftus-Hills, and Littlejohn, 1971, Aust. J. Zool., 19: 414. Holotype: NMV D27601, by original designation. Type locality: "O'Connors Flat, 8.3 km SSE. of Yea, Vic[toria].", Australia.

Rawlinsonia paraewingiWells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 6.

English Names

Red Cryptic Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).

Victorian Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 86).

Victoria Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 46).

Distribution

Central and northeastern Victoria and adjacent New South Wales, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

In the Litoria ewingii group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 26, and Litoria ewingii complex of Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 82. See Littlejohn, 1982, Occas. Publ. New Zealand Dept. Inter. Aff. Wildl. Serv., 2: 113–142, for account. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 46-47. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 29, provided a polygon distribution map.

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