Papuahyla rubrops

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: Papuahyla
Species: Papuahyla rubrops

Name

Papuahyla rubrops (Kraus & Allison, 2004)

• Holotype: BPBM 15767 (field tag FK 5115), adult ♂, collected by F. Kraus on 14 April 2002.
• Type locality: “Upaelisafupi Stream, 10°29.825′S, 150°13.978′E, 700 m elevation, Cloudy Mountains, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. This locality is approximately 33 km straight-line distance SW of Alotau”.
• Paratypes (n=22): BPBM 15759–66, 15768–70, PNGNM 23857–62, same data as holotype, except collected by F. Kraus, I. Bigilale, and native collectors, 9–22 April 2002.

Combinations

• Litoria rubrops Kraus & Allison, 2004: 98 [original combination]
• Papuahyla rubrops — Donnellan, Mahony & Richards in Donnellan et al., 2025: 60 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Kraus, F. & Allison, A. 2004. A new species of Litoria (Anura: Hylidae) from southeastern New Guinea. Herpetologica 60: 97–103.
• 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: Papuahyla rubrops  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T55751A152546100. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55751A152546100.en. Accessed on 21 October 2025.