Rawlinsonia eungellensis (Price, Hoskin, Mahony, and Donnellan, 2025)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pelodryadidae > Genus: Rawlinsonia > Species: Rawlinsonia eungellensis

Litoria eungellensis Price, Hoskin, Mahony, and Donnellan, 2025, Zootaxa, 5584: 323. Holotype: QM J35106, by original designation. Type locality: "Thurgood Farm, 18 km from Dalrymple Heights, mideastern Queensland, Australia. -21.033º, 148.6º". 

Rawlinsonia eungellensis — Provisional arrangement here (22 June 2025) fide S. Mahony; Anstis, 2026, Tadpoles & Frogs Australia, 3rd Ed.: 323.    

Common Names

Eungella Whirring Tree Frog (Price, Hoskin, Mahony, and Donnellan, 2025, Zootaxa, 5584: 323. 

Revealed Tree Frog (Anstis, 2026, Tadpoles & Frogs Australia, 3rd Ed.: 323).   

Distribution

High elevations (880 to 1211 m) from Pease’s lookout, 3km ENE of the Eungella township northeast to Mt David and Mt William in the headwaters of the Cattle Creek North branch, south-southwest of Mt Dalrymple and the Clarke Range in Eungella National Park and in the west to farm properties west of the Dalrymple Road, Queensland, Australia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Comparative morphology, advertisement call, and molecular markers detailed by Price, Hoskin, Mahony, and Donnellan, 2025, Zootaxa, 5584: 301–338, who placed this species in the Litoria revelata complex (now part of Rawlinsonia). Anstis, 2026, Tadpoles & Frogs Australia, 3rd Ed.: 323–325, provided an account, including adult and larval morphology, natural history, and a polygon distribution map.   

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