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Litoria prora (Menzies, 1969)
Hyla prora Menzies, 1969, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 93: 165. Holotype: UP 1015, by original designation. Type locality: "...near Efogi...at an altitude 3,800′; location 147° 38′ E.; 9° 9′ S. and approximately 37 miles northeast of Port Moresby", Central Province, Papua New Guinea.
Litoria prora — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 354. Menzies, 1972, Herpetologica, 28: 291.
English Names
Efogi Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).
Distribution
Known only from two localities on the southern flank of the central ranges, upper Kikori River and Efogi in the Owen Stanley Range, Central Province, Papua New Guinea, ca. 1200 m elevation; possibly to be found in extreme eastern Papua, Indonesia.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural resident: Papua New Guinea
Likely/controversial occurrence in political unit: Indonesia
Endemic to the political unit: Papua New Guinea
Comment
In the monotypic Litoria prora group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 40. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 148, 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.
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