Ranoidea napaea (Tyler, 1968)

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

Hyla napaea Tyler, 1968, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 96: 145. Holotype: AMNH 49659, by original designation. Type locality: "at an altitude of 2830 ft at Camp 2, 3-4 miles south-west of Bernhard Camp, Idenburg River, Snow Mountains, New Guinea", Papua, Indonesia.

Litoria napaeaTyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 354.

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the Snow Mountains, and from the Wapoga River catchments 300 km to the west, New Guinea, Papua, Indonesia.

Comment

In the monotypic Litoria napaea group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 35. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 150-151, provided a brief account.

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