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Nyctimystes Stejneger, 1916
Hyla graminea Boulenger, 1905, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 16: 183. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.23.31 (formerly 1905.1.30.29) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 90. Type locality: "Northern British New Guinea, altitude 900 feet".
Litoria graminea — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 353.
Dryopsophus gramineus — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40.
Ranoidea graminea — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21.
Nyctimystes gramineus — Here (16 August 2018). Based on molecular evidence of Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 39, and Rosauer, Laffan, Crisp, Donnellan, and Cook, 2009, Mol. Ecol., 18: Suppl. data, placing former junior synonym Litoria dux into Nyctimystes.
Common Names
Big-eyed Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).
Distribution
New Guinea and associated islands west to Timor and the Moluccas, and south to eastern and extreme northern Australia.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Litoria (rendering that genus paraphyletic, except if also transferring the "Litoria" graminea group as done here) by Kraus, 2013, Mem. Queensland Mus., 56: 581–587, where it had been placed by Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 205, in order to render Litoria monophyletic. See comment under Litoria for access to relevant literature. Menzies, 2014, Alytes, 30: 42–68, discussed the Nyctimystes cheesmani group and argued that the name should be rendered as cheesmanae. Menzies, 2014, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 138: 135–143, reported on the Nyctimystes narinosus group. Menzies, 2014, Alytes, 31: 59–76, discussed the Nyctimystes papua species group. Redelimited by Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 39. See also Zweifel, 1983, Am. Mus. Novit., 2759: 1–21, for accounts of former Nyctimystes. See Czechura, Ingram, and Liem, 1987, Rec. Aust. Mus., 39: 338, for systematics of Australian populations of former Nyctimystes.Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 205, considered Cyclorana as a monophyletic subgenus of Litoria, and placed Nyctimystes into the synonymy of Litoria because of the former's polyphyly and the latter's paraphyly (see below). Menzies, Richards, and Tyler, 2008, Aust. J. Zool., 56: 257–280, revised the Litoria bicolor group, and noted that populations previous assigned to Litoria bicolor (e.g., from the Aru Islands of Indonesia) represent unnamed species. Kraus, 2012, Herpetologica, 68: 541–550, suggested that (then) Litoria dayi (now in Dryopsophus) is not a member of Nyctimystes, rendering Nyctimystes monophyletic.
Contained taxa (47 sp.):
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