Chlorohyla elkeae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Chlorohyla
Species: Chlorohyla elkeae

Name

Chlorohyla elkeae (Günther & Richards, 2000)

• Holotype: ZMB 59375, collected by R. Günther on 9 August 1998.
• Type locality: “100 m from the river Kalibumi at km 35 along the Nabire to Mapia road, Irian Jaya [now Papua], Indonesia”.

Combinations

• Litoria elkeae Günther & Richards, 2000: 29 [original combination]
• Dryopsophus elkeae — Duellman, Marion & Hedges, 2016: 40 [subsequent combination]
• Ranoidea elkeae — Dubois & Frétey, 2016: 21 [subsequent combination]
• Chlorohyla elkeae — Mahony, Donnellan & Richards in Donnellan et al., 2025: 38 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Günther, R. & Richards, S.R. 2000. A new species of the Litoria gracilenta group from Irian Jaya (Anura: Hylidae). Herpetozoa 13: 27–43.
• Duellman, W.E., Marion, A.B. & Hedges, S.B. 2016. Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae). Zootaxa 4104(1): 1–109. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4104.1.1 Reference page. 
• Dubois, A. & Frétey, T. 2016. A new nomen for a subfamily of frogs (Amphibia, Anura). Dumerilia 6: 17–23. Reference page. 
• Donnellan, S.C., Mahony, M.J., Esquerré, D., Brennan, I.G., Price, L.C., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Günther, R., Monis, P., Bertozzi, T., Keogh, J.S., Shea, G.M. & Richards, S.J. 2025. Phylogenomics informs a generic revision of the Australo-Papuan treefrogs (Anura: Pelodryadidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(2): zlaf015. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf015 Reference page. 

Links

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2020. IUCN: Chlorohyla elkeae  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T55721A152544482. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55721A152544482.en. Accessed on 05 March 2026.