Mahonabatrachus Wells and Wellington, 1985

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pelodryadidae > Genus: Mahonabatrachus
6 species

Mahonabatrachus Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5. Type species: Hyla meiriana Tyler, 1969, by original designation. 

Llewellynura Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5. Type species: Hyla dorsalis microbelos Cogger, 1966, by original designation. Synonymy by Mahony, Donnellan, and Richards in Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 54. 

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Northern Australia and the southern New Guinean mainland.

Comment

In the Litoria-Rawlinsonia clade of Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 1–80, who noted that the taxon conforms in content of the Litoria dorsalis and Litoria meiriana groups of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 1–47. As originally recognized, both Mahonabatrachus and Llewellynura, were largely ignored by working systematists; see Tyler, 1985, Herpetol. Rev., 16: 69; Australian Society of Herpetologists, 1987, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 44: 116–121; Tyler, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 45: 152; Holthius, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 45 and decision by ICZN (Anonymous, 1991, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 48: 337–338).

Contained taxa (6 sp.):

Mahonabatrachus aurifer (Anstis, Tyler, Roberts, Price, and Doughty, 2010)
Mahonabatrachus dorsalis (Macleay, 1878)
Mahonabatrachus longirostris (Tyler and Davies, 1977)
Mahonabatrachus meirianus (Tyler, 1969)
Mahonabatrachus microbelos (Cogger, 1966)
Mahonabatrachus timidus (Tyler and Parker, 1972)

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