Colleeneremia electrica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota 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: Colleeneremia
Species: Colleeneremia electrica

Name

Colleeneremia electrica (Ingram & Corben, 1990)

• Holotype: QM J38963, adult ♂, collected G.J. Ingram and G.V. Czechura on 21 January 1981.
• Type locality: “25.1 km E of Cloncurry on Julia Creek-Cloncurry road, WCQ (20°43′S, 140°39′E)”, Australia.

Combinations

• Litoria electrica Ingram & Corben, 1990: 476 [original combination]
• Colleeneremia electrica — Mahony, Donnellan & Richards in Donnellan et al., 2025: 40 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Ingram, G.J. & Corben, C.J. 1990. Litoria electrica: a new treefrog from western Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28(2): 475–478. BHL 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. 2022. IUCN: Colleeneremia electrica  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T41088A78448350. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T41088A78448350.en. Accessed on 09 March 2026.

Vernacular names

• English: Electric Treefrog