Ranoidea nannotis (Andersson, 1916)

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

Hyla nannotis Andersson, 1916, K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 52: 16. Holotype: NHRM 1645, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 134. Type locality: "Tully River, N. Queensland", Australia.

Hyla obsoleta nannotis — Copland, 1957, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 82: 55.

Hyla nannotis — Tyler, 1965, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 145: 94.

Litoria nannotis — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 354.

Mosleyia nannotis — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5.

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

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

Common Names

Torrent Tree Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 100; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 63; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 136; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 70).

Waterfall Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 63; Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 136).

Torrent Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).

Distribution

High-gradient stream habitats of northeastern Queensland from Paluma to Cooktown, Australia, 180–1300 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

For discussion see Liem, 1974, Mem. Queensland Mus., 17: 151, and Davies and McDonald, 1979, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 103: 169. In the Litoria nannotis group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 35. Removed from the synonymy of Hyla obsoleta by Tyler, 1965, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 145: 94, where it had been placed by Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7. See Cunningham, 2002, Mem. Queensland Mus., 48: 93–102, for discussion of phylogenetics and distribution. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 258. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 70–71. Bell, MacKenzie, Hickerson, Chavarría, Cunningham, Williams, and Moritz, 2012, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, Biol. Sci., 279: 991–999, reported on molecular phylogeography. Puschendorf, Todd, and Gardner, 2016, Aust. J. Zool., 64: 390–394, reported on geographic variation in microsatellites. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 176, provided a brief account (as Litoria nannotis), photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 28, provided a polygon distribution map (as Litoria nannotis). 

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