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Litoria nigropunctata (Meyer, 1875)
Hyperolius nigropunctatus Meyer, 1875 "1874", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874: 139. Type(s): MTD; destroyed in World War II according to Obst, 1977, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 34: 174. Type locality: "Jobi" (=Japen) I., Geelvink Bay, Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia; rendered as "Ansus, Jobi" by Obst, 1977, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 34: 174.
Hylella nigropunctata — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 421.
Hyla bernsteini Horst, 1883, Notes Leyden Mus., 5: 241. Syntypes: RMNH (2 specimens); RMNH 4421 according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 135. Type locality: "Salawattie and Gebeh [I.]", New Guinea, Indonesa. Synonymy by Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 308, 394.
Hyla (Hylella) ouwensii Barbour, 1908, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 51: 325. Holotype: MCZ 2434, by original designation. Type locality: "Pom, north coast of Jobi (Japen) Island, Geelvink Bay, Dutch New Guinea". Synonymy by Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 308, 394.
Hyla (Hylella) nigromaculata — Barbour, 1908, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 51: 325. Error for Hyla nigropunctata.
Hyla nigropunctata — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 210. Secondary homonym of Hyperolius nigropunctata Meyer, 1875 (= Litoria nigropunctata), when in Hyla.
Hyla atropunctata — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 37. Substitute name for Hylella nigropunctata Meyer.
Litoria nigropunctata — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 354. Menzies, 1972, Herpetologica, 28: 291.
Common Names
Black-dotted Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).
Distribution
Northern New Guinea and Gebe and Japen Is., 0-500 m elevation; one locality, Ok Tedi River, on the southern flank of the central mountain ranges.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
Comment
In the Litoria nigropunctata group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 37. See Menzies, 1972, Herpetologica, 28: 291-300. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 116-117, provided a brief account for this species which he included in his Litoria nigropunctata complex.
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