Litoria hunti

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Litoria hunti is a tree frog from northern Papua New Guinea. The New Guineans call it "Wowo."[2] 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.[1][3][4]

Litoria hunti
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
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)[2]
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)

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.[2]

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.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Stephen Richards (2008). "Litoria hunti". 2008. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T136072A4247362. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136072A4247362.en. Retrieved July 28, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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.