Litoria lodesdema

Litoria lodesdema is a frog from New Guinea.[2][3][1]

Litoria lodesdema
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Litoria
Species:
L. lodesdema
Binomial name
Litoria lodesdema
(Menzies et al., 2008)[2][3]

The adult male frog is yellow-green in color and about 22 mm long from nose to rear end. It has a bronze or yellow stripe. These frogs have some webbing on their front feet and more webbing on their hind feet.[2]

They have been seen laying eggs in a roadside marsh.[2]

The scientists who first described (wrote the first formal paper about) Litoria lodesdema named it from the Latin phrase loca demissa septentrionalis domicilium habemus or "in the lowlands of the north we have our home."[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Phyllodytes tuberculosus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T74050068A74050165. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T74050068A74050165.en. S2CID 242818101. 74050068. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Stephanie Ung (November 16, 2009). "Litoria lodesdema". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Litoria lodesdema Menzies, Richards, and Tyler, 2008". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved June 25, 2020.