Pelodryas gilleni (Spencer, 1896)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pelodryadidae > Genus: Pelodryas > Species: Pelodryas gilleni

Hyla gilleni Spencer, 1896, in Spencer (ed.), Rep. Work Horn Sci. Exped. Cent. Aust., 2: 173. Syntypes: 3 specimens noted; NMV D9827 labelled "type" according to Coventry, 1970, Mem. Natl. Mus. Victoria, 31: 116, who considered this specimen the holotype. Type locality: "Alice Springs", Northern Territory, Australia.

Hyla gilleni — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 226.

Hyla caerulea gilleni — Copland, 1957, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 82: 30; Mertens, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 15-21.

Litoria gilleni — Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 43; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 108.

Pelodryas gilleni — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 6; Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 62.

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

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

Common Names

Centralian Tree Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 96; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 112; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 44; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 166).

Distribution

Confined to the vicinity of the MacDonnell Ranges, south-central Northern Territory, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Resurrected from the synonymy of Litoria caerulea by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 43, where it had been placed by Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7, 39. In the Litoria caerulea group of Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 108. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 44–45. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 166, provided a brief account (as Litoria gilleni), photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 26, provided a polygon distribution map (as Litoria gilleni).

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