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Litoria darlingtoni (Loveridge, 1945)
Hyla darlingtoni Loveridge, 1945, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 58: 53. Holotype: MCZ 25890, by original designation. Type locality: "Mount Wilhelm, 5000–8000 feet, Bismarck Range, Madang Division, [Chimbu Province, Papua] New Guinea".
Nyctimystes flavomaculata Forcart, 1953, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 64: 63. Holotype: NHMB 5820, by original designation. Type locality: "Nordost-Neuguinea, Chimbu-Subdistrikt", given as "Kundiawa, Central Mountains, New Guinea" by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 122. Synonymy by Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 42.
Hyla darlingtoni — Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 42.
Litoria darlingtoni — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 352.
Common Names
Darlington's Madang Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 59).
Distribution
Central and eastern mountains of Papua New Guinea, between 141° and 146° E, ca. 1500 m elevation; Jayawilijaya and Hela, Papua, Indonesia (see comment).
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
Comment
See Tyler, 1968, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 96: 76. In the Litoria peronii group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 39. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 103–104, provided a brief account for this species which he included in his Litoria amboinensis complex. Oliver, Davie-Rieck, Ramdani, Dashper, Kusuma, Lee, Rittmeyer, Clancy, Hamidy, Thompson, Fouquet, Ferreira, and Richards, 2025, Pacific Conserv. Biol., 31(PC24063): 1–12, as part of a larger discussion of the role of citizen science in documenting species ranges in Melanesia noted that iNaturalist provided a range extension into Papua, Indonesia, at Jayawilijaya and Hela.
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