Litoria quiritatus Rowley, Mahony, Hines, Myers, Price, Shea, and Donnellan, 2021

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Litoria > Species: Litoria quiritatus

Litoria quiritatus Rowley, Mahony, Hines, Myers, Price, Shea, and Donnellan, 2021, Zootaxa, 5071: 27. Holotype: AMS R185759, by original designation. Type locality: "Coalcliff, New South Wales (-34.247, 150.975)". Zoobank publication registration: E695DE38-387E-41E0-8188-532A907C3BB1

English Names

Screaming Tree Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

In the south from the Genoa River, 10 km NW Mallacoota, Victoria, along the coast and eastern fall of the Great Dividing Range north to Mernot State Forest, New South Wales, Australia, below 1100 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Formerly confused with Litoria dentata; comparative morphology, call, and molecular markers discussed in the original publication. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 30, provided a polygon distribution map. 

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