Litoria sauroni

Litoria sauroni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Litoria
Species:
L. sauroni
Binomial name
Litoria sauroni
(Richards and Oliver, 2006)
Synonyms
  • Litoria sauroni (Richards and Oliver, 2006)
  • Dryopsophus sauroni (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea sauroni (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)
  • Nyctimystes sauroni (American Museum of Natural History, 2018)

Litoria sauroni is a tree frog from Papua New Guinea. Scientists have only seen it in the Kikori Integrate Conservation and Development Project area. Different scientists disagree about whether this frog should be in the genus Litoria or Nyctimystes.

This frog has red-and-black eyes and pads, called nuptial pads, on its front feet.

References

  1. ↑ Stephen Richards (2008). "Litoria sauroni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T136016A4229219. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136016A4229219.en. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 "Litoria sauroni". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Nyctimystes sauroni (Richards and Oliver, 2006)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  4. 1 2 Paul Oliver; Stephen J. Richards; Burhan Tjaturadi; Sjoko Iskandar (2007). "A new large green species of Litoria (Anura: Hylidae) from western New Guinea" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1519: 17–26. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1519.1.2. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  5. ↑ Stephen J. Richards; Paul M. Oliver (2006). "Two new species of large green canopy-dwelling frogs (Anura: Hylidae: Litoria) from Papua New Guinea". Zootaxa. 1295 (1): 41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1295.1.3. Retrieved August 6, 2020.