Teretistes havina (Menzies, 1993)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pelodryadidae > Genus: Teretistes > Species: Teretistes havina

Litoria havina Menzies, 1993, Aust. J. Zool., 41: 244. Holotype: UP 7281, by original designation. Type locality: "at an altitude of 760 m in the valley of the Ok Kam, a tributary of the upper Ok Tedi, Western Province of Papua New Guinea", New Guinea.

Teretistes havina — Donnellan, Mahony & Richards in Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 72. 

Common Names

Lappet-nosed Treefrog (Günther, 2003, Faun. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd., Dresden, 24: 211).

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality in the drainage of the upper Ok Tedi, Western Province, Papua New Guinea; the eastern slope of the Wondowoi Mountains, and on the Vogelkop Peninsula (see comment), Western Papua, Indonesia.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

In the Litoria nigropunctata group according to the original publication. Günther, 2003, Faun. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd., Dresden, 24: 211, provided the record for Papua, Indonesia. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 141–142, provided a brief account and included this in his Litoria iris group. Shea and Kraus, 2007, Zootaxa, 1514: 37–60, commented on the type specimens. 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 iNaturalist provided a range extension onto the Vogelkop Peninsulat at Tambrauw, Sorong, Papua Barat, Papua, Indonesia. Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 72, noted that the name likely represents a species complex. 

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