Northern New Guinea tree frog

The Northern New Guinea tree frog (Nytimystes gramineus) is a tree frog from Papua New Guinea.[2][3][1]

Northern New Guinea tree frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Nyctimystes
Species:
N. gramineus
Binomial name
Nyctimystes gramineus
(Boulinger, 1905)[2]
Synonyms
  • Hyla graminea (Boulenger, 1905)
  • Litoria graminea (Tyler, 1971)
  • Litoria dux (Richards and Oliver, 2006)
  • Dryopsophus gramineus (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Nyctimystes dux (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
  • Ranoidea graminea (Dubois and Frétey, 2016)
  • Nytimystes gramineus (American Museum of Natural History, 2018)[2]

This is a canopy-dwelling frog, meaning it lives high in the branches of the trees where the leaves grow. For a while, scientists thought Litoria dux was a different species, but some scientists now think Litoria dux is part of Litoria graminea.[4]

References
  1. Richards, S.; Allison, A. (2004). "Northern New Guinea Treefrog: Litoria graminea". 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T55724A11357366. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T55724A11357366.en. Retrieved July 27, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Nyctimystes gramineus (Boulenger, 1905)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  3. "Northern New Guinea Tree Frog: Nyctimystes graminea". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  4. Fred Kraus (August 8, 2018). "Taxonomy of Litoria graminea (Anura: Hylidae), with descriptions of two closely related new species (Abstract)". Zootaxa. 4457 (2): 264–284. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4457.2.3. PMID 30314169. S2CID 52972250. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
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