Litoria pygmaea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Hylidae
Subfamilia: Pelodryadinae
Genus: Litoria
Species: Litoria pygmaea

Name

Litoria pygmaea (Meyer, 1875)

Type locality: "Jobi" (= Yapen) I., Geelvink Bay, Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia.

Holotype: MTKD; destroyed in World War II.

Synonyms

• Hyperolius pygmaeus Meyer, 1875
• Hylella pygmaea — Meyer, 1887
• Hylella boulengeri Méhely, 1897
• Hyla fallax Boulenger, 1898
• Hyla boulengeri — Van Kampen, 1906
• Hyla mehelyi Nieden, 1923
• Hyla pygmaea — Loveridge, 1948
• Litoria pygmaea — Tyler, 1971

References

• Meyer, 1875 "1874", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874: 139.
• Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 354.
• Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Litoria pygmaea . Accessed on 29 Apr 2008.
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Litoria pygmaea  (Least Concern) Downloaded on 27 April 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Geelvink Pigmy Treefrog