Amnihyla pratti (Boulenger, 1911)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pelodryadidae > Genus: Amnihyla > Species: Amnihyla pratti

Hyla pratti Boulenger, 1911, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 8: 55. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.23.54–56 (formerly 1909.10.30.25–27) (Wendessi), 1947.2.23.57–58 (formerly 1911.3.29.1–2) (Arfak Mountains) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 94. Type locality: "Wendessi ... [and] Arfak Mountains at an altitude of 8000 feet", Vogelkop Peninsula, Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia.

Hyla montana pratti — Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 397.

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

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

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

Amnihyla pratti — Richards, Mahony, and Donnellan in Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 35. 

Common Names

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

Distribution

Northern Vogelkop Peninsula, Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia, and upper Fly River region in western Papua New Guinea (see comment). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea

Comment

For discussion see Tyler, 1968, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 96: 157. 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.: 139, provided a brief account and considered this species to be in his Litoria pratti group and who also implied that the Wendessi locality was not assignable to this species. 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. Oliver, Davie-Rieck, Ramdani, Dashper, Kusuma, Lee, Rittmeyer, Clancy, Hamidy, Thompson, Fouquet, Ferreira, and Richards, 2025, Pacific Conserv. Biol., 31(PC24063): 1–12, as part of a larger discussion of the role of citizen science in documenting species ranges in Melanesia, noted that the nominal species is likely a complex and that iNaturalist provided a record from the Arfak Mountains. Oliver, Iskandar, Herlambang, and Richards, 2026, Zootaxa, 5878: 389–404, restricted the known range with the description of Amnihyla homunculus, and provided a dot map of populations that morphologically appear to be Amnihyla pratti, while noting that molecular studies are needed. 

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