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Litoria havina Menzies, 1993
Litoria havina Menzies, 1993, Aust. J. Zool., 41: 244. Holotype: UP 7281, by original designation. Type locality: "at an altitude of 760 m in the valley of the Ok Kam, a tributary of the upper Ok Tedi, Western Province of Papua New Guinea", New Guinea.
Common Names
Lappet-nosed Treefrog (Günther, 2003, Faun. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd., Dresden, 24: 211).
Distribution
Known only from the vicinity of the type locality in the drainage of the upper Ok Tedi, Western Province, Papua New Guinea; the eastern slope of the Wondowoi Mountains, and on the Vogelkop Peninsula (see comment), Western Papua, Indonesia.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
Comment
In the Litoria nigropunctata group according to the original publication. Günther, 2003, Faun. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd., Dresden, 24: 211, provided the record for Papua, Indonesia. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 141–142, provided a brief account and included this in his Litoria iris group. Shea and Kraus, 2007, Zootaxa, 1514: 37–60, commented on the type specimens. 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 onto the Vogelkop Peninsulat at Tambrauw, Sorong, Papua Barat, Papua, Indonesia.
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