Nyctimystes lubisi (Oliver, Günther, Tjaturadi, and Richards, 2021)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Nyctimystes > Species: Nyctimystes lubisi

Litoria lubisi Oliver, Günther, Tjaturadi, and Richards, 2021, Zootaxa, 4903: 118. Holotype: MZB Amph. 13.358, by original designation. Type locality: "10 km south of Timika town, Papua Province, Indonesia (4.662°S, 136.897°E; 20 m a.s.l.)". 

Nyctimystes lubisi — Here (7 January 2021). See comment. 

Common Names

Lubis’s Treefrog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (10 km south of Timika town, Papua Province [New Guinea], Indonesia). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Endemic: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Comment

Transferred to Nyctimystes here due to being in the "Litoria" infrafrenata group. It is a mystery to me (DRF) why a non-monophyletic Litoria is so tightly embraced in Australia. Oliver, Günther, Tjaturadi, and Richards, 2021, Zootaxa, 4948: 599, corrected figure 3 in an erratum. 

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