Litoria hunti

Litoria hunti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Litoria
Species:
L. hunti
Binomial name
Litoria hunti
(Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006)
Synonyms
  • Litoria hunti (Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006)
  • Litoria huntorum (Shea and Kraus, 2007)
  • "Litoria" hunti (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Litoria huntorum (Kraus, 2018)
  • Nyctimystes hunti (American Museum of Natural History, 2018)

Litoria hunti is a tree frog from northern Papua New Guinea. The New Guineans call it "Wowo." Scientists have only seen it in Utai, which is in Sanduan Province, but they think it lives in many other places on the island of New Guinea.

The adult male frog has pads on its feet called nuptial pads. The adult male frog is 57.9-60.4 mm long from nose to rear end. It is bright green on the back and sometimes has a white stripe from its jaw to its ear. The climbing discs on its feet are white. It has vomerine teeth in its upper jaw.

Scientists could hear this frog calling from the trees 5 to 8 meters above the ground, so they think it lays eggs in pools on the forest floor. But they did not see the frogs doing this.

References

  1. 1 2 Stephen Richards (2008). "Litoria hunti". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T136072A4247362. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136072A4247362.en. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Stephen J. Richards; Paul Oliver; Chris Dahl; Burhan Tjaturadi; Guido Sautter (2006). "A new species of large green treefrog (Anura: Hylidae: Litoria) from northern New Guinea". Zootaxa. 1208: 57–68. doi:10.5281/zenodo.172420. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Nyctimystes hunti (Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Litoria hunti". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved July 28, 2020.