Leptobatrachus flavescens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota 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 Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Leptobatrachus
Species: Leptobatrachus flavescens

Name

Leptobatrachus flavescens (Kraus & Allison, 2004)

• Holotype: BPBM 16441 (field tag FK 6759), adult ♂, collected by F. Kraus on 1 October 2002.
• Type locality: “N of Saidowai, 9°57.780′S, 150°57.248′E, 0-5 m elevation, northeast end of Sewa Bay, Normanby Island, d'Entrecasteaux Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea”.
• Paratypes (n=3): BPBM 16438, adult ♂, Normanby Island, d'Entrecasteaux Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, BPBM 16439, adult ♂, N of Saidowai, 9°57.5819′S, 150°57.1259′E, 5–10 m elevation and PNGNM 23883, adult ♂, same data as holotype.

Combinations

• Litoria flavescens Kraus & Allison, 2004: 198 [original combination]
• Leptobatrachus flavescens — Richards, Donnellan & Mahony in Donnellan et al., 2025: 66 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Kraus, F. & Allison, A. 2004. Two new treefrogs from Normanby Island, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Herpetology 38: 197–207.
• 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: Leptobatrachus flavescens  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T201490A152559957. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T201490A152559957.en. Accessed on 21 October 2025.