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Litoria grinpela Richards and Oliver, 2024
Litoria grinpela Richards and Oliver, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 426. Holotype: SAMA R72339, by original designation. Type locality: "Liddell River, upper Strickland River basin, Western Province, Papua New Guinea (5.8078°S, 142.3083°E; 215 m a.s.l.)". Zoobank publication registration: 49F3D3E2-77E5-400F-B498-D53B60677AD7
Common Names
Green Torrent Treefrog (original publication).
Distribution
Known from two locations along the southern slopes of Papua New Guinea’s Central Cordillera: the type locality in the upper Strickland River basin in Western Province, and Libano Sok, on the Hegigio River in the Kikori River basin in Southern Highlands Province, 100 km to the east of the type locality.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea
Endemic: Papua New Guinea
Comment
Comparative adult morphology, molecular markers, and advertisement call detailed in the original publication.
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