Litoria rothii (De Vis, 1884)

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

Hyla rothii De Vis, 1884, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 9: 66. Syntypes: 4 syntypes noted, formerly in QM, now lost according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 49; Boulenger, 1885, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 16: 387, records 3 syntypes exchanged to the BMNH, now also lost according to Donnellan, Catullo, Rowley, Doughty, Price, Hines, and Richards, 2023, Zootaxa, 5352: 92. Type locality: "Mackay", Queensland, Australia.

Litoria rothii — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 354; Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 39.

Pengilleyia rothi — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 6.

Common Names

Red-eyed Treefrog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222).

Roth's Tree Frog (Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.: 73; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 64; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 97; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 36).

Rust-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Cackle Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Laughing Tree Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Northern Laughing Tree Frog (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 81).

Eastern Laughing Tree Frog (Donnellan, Catullo, Rowley, Doughty, Price, Hines, and Richards, 2023, Zootaxa, 5352: 99).

Distribution

Australia, from the Mount Isa to Normanton region east to northern Cape York and south-east along coastal Queensland south to the Gympie region; southern New Guinea (both Indonesian and Papua New Guinean), it occurs between the Bensbach and Binaturi Rivers at elevations near sea level. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia, Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea

Comment

In the Litoria peronii group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 39. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 104–105, provided a brief account for this species which he included in his Litoria amboinensis complex. See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 81. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 36–37. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 187, provided a brief account, photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 31, provided a polygon distribution map. Donnellan, Catullo, Rowley, Doughty, Price, Hines, and Richards, 2023, Zootaxa, 5352: 73–108, revised the concept of the species through  the recognition, on the basis of morphology, advertisement call, and molecular markers, of Litoria ridibunda for the former western populations in Western Australia and adjacent northwestern Queensland. 

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