Ranoidea myola (Hoskin, 2007)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Ranoidea > Species: Ranoidea myola

Litoria myola Hoskin, 2007, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 91: 552. Holotype: QM J82420, by original designation. Type locality: "Jumrum Ck. (16° 49.3′ S, 145° 38.3′ E), north-east Queensland, 330 m elevation", Australia.

Dryopsophus myola — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40. 

Ranoidea myola — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21. 

Common Names

Kuranda Tree Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 64).

Distribution

Small area draining into the Barron River in the Kuranda area, northeastern Queensland, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Confused with Litoria genimaculata prior to its discovery, according to the original publication. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 64–65. Bertola, Higgie, Zenger, and Hoskin, 2023, Conserv. Genetics, 24: 249–264, reported on conservation genetics. 

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