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Litoria becki (Loveridge, 1945)
Hyla becki Loveridge, 1945, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 58: 53. Holotype: MCZ 25900, by original designation. Type locality: "taken among rocks beside a brook in the forest on Mt. Wilhelm, 7,500–10,000 feet, Bismarck Range, Madang Division", Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea.
Litoria becki — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 352.
Dryopsophus becki — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40.
Ranoidea becki — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21.
Common Names
Beck's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 59).
Distribution
Mount Giluwe and Mount Wilhelm in the central mountains of Papua New Guinea, 2300–3200 m elevation; possibly Mount Jaya at 3650 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea
Endemic: Papua New Guinea
Comment
For discussion see Tyler, 1968, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 96: 47. In the Litoria becki group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 14. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 134, provided a brief account and considered this species to be in his Litoria pratti group. 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: 256. Inclusion in Litoria by implication of the tree topology of the tree presented in Richards, Tjaturadi, Krey, and Donnellan, 2021, in Telnov et al. (eds.), Biodivers. Biogeography & Nat. Conserv. Wallacea & New Guinea, 4: 19–33.
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