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Ranoidea phyllochroa (Günther, 1863)
Hyla phyllochroa Günther, 1863, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863: 251. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.24.3–5 (formerly 1860.6.19.37 [Errumanga], 1860.6.19.40 [Sydney], 1863.6.16.84 [2 specimens, Sydney], according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 94, and museum records), ZMB 4929. Type localities: "Sydney" and "Errumanga, New South Wales", Australia.
Hyla phyllochrous phyllochroa — Copland, 1963 "1962", Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 87: 137.
Litoria phyllochroa — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 354.
Dryopsophus phyllochroa — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5. Disagreement in gender.
Dryopsophus phyllochrous — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40.
Ranoidea phyllochroa — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21.
English Names
Leaf Green Tree Frog (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 255; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 103; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 63; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 128).
Leaf Green Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).
Green Stream Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 58).
Distribution
Eastern part of New South Wales and adjacent Queensland and Victoria, Australia.
Comment
In the Litoria citropa group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 20. See Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 255. See comment under Litoria pearsoniana. See Donnellan, McGuigan, Knowles, Mahony, and Moritz, 1999, Aust. J. Zool., 47: 275–293, for discussion of species distinctiveness. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 58–59. See comment under Litoria barringtonensis.
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