Litoria
Taxonomía Reino :
Animalia Filo :
Chordata Subfilo:
Vertebrata Clase :
Amphibia Orden :
Anura Familia :
Pelodryadidae Género :
Litoria Tschudi , 1838 Especie tipo
Litoria freycineti Tschudi, 1838 Especies
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Sinonimia
Ranoidea Tschudi, 1838Lepthyla Duméril y Bibron , 1841Dryopsophus Fitzinger , 1843Euscelis Fitzinger, 1843Pelobius Fitzinger, 1843Polyphone Gistel , 1848Chiroleptes Günther , 1859Pelodryas Günther, 1859Cyclorana Steindachner , 1867Phractops Peters , 1867Chirodryas Keferstein, 1867Hylomantis Peters, 1880Dryomantis Peters, 1882Mitrolysis Cope , 1889Cheiroleptes Spencer, 1901Coggerdonia Wells y Wellington, 1985Colleeneremia Wells y Wellington, 1985Brendanura Wells y Wellington, 1985Neophractops Wells y Wellington, 1985Llewellynura Wells y Wellington, 1985Mahonabatrachus Wells y Wellington, 1985Mosleyia Wells y Wellington, 1985Pengilleyia Wells y Wellington, 1985Rawlinsonia Wells y Wellington, 1985Saganura Wells y Wellington, 1985Sandyrana Wells y Wellington, 1985[ 1]
Litoria Pelodryadidae ) nativas de Australia , Tasmania , el archipiélago Bismarck , las islas menores de la Sonda , las islas Molucas , Nueva Guinea , las islas Salomón y Timor (además, se han introducido en otras islas de Oceanía ). Se distinguen de las otras ranas arbóreas por la presencia de iris horizontales, la falta de pigmentación de los párpados y su distribución geográfica.
Las especies dentro del género Litoria varían extremadamente en apariencia, comportamiento y hábitat , siendo la rana jabalina (Litoria microbelos especie más pequeña, alcanzando una longitud máxima de 1,6 cm , mientras que la más grande, la rana arborícola gigante (Litoria infrafrenata
Especies
Se reconocen las siguientes 183 especies:[ 2]
Litoria adelaidensis (Gray, 1841) Litoria albolabris (Wandolleck, 1911) Litoria amboinensis (Horst, 1883) Litoria andiirrmalin McDonald, 1997 Litoria angiana (Boulenger, 1915) Litoria arfakiana (Peters & Doria, 1878) Litoria aruensis (Horst, 1883) Litoria auae Menzies & Tyler, 2004 Litoria aurea (Lesson, 1826) Litoria aurifera Anstis, Tyler, Roberts, Price & Doughty, 2010 Litoria australis (Gray, 1842) Litoria axillaris [ 3] Doughty, 2011 Litoria azuroscelis Günther, Richards, Hamidy, Trilaksono, Sulaeman & Oliver, 2023 [ 4] Litoria barringtonensis (Copland, 1957) Litoria becki (Loveridge, 1945) Litoria bella McDonald, Rowley, Richards & Frankham, 2016 Litoria biakensis Günther, 2006 Litoria bibonius Kraus & Allison, 2004 Litoria bicolor (Gray, 1842) Litoria booroolongensis (Moore, 1961) Litoria brevipalmata Tyler, Martin & Watson, 1972 Litoria brevipes (Peters, 1871) Litoria brongersmai (Loveridge, 1945) Litoria bulmeri (Tyler, 1968) Litoria burrowsi (Scott, 1942) Litoria caerulea (White, 1790) Litoria callista [ 5] Kraus, 2013 Litoria capitula (Tyler, 1968) Litoria castanea Steindachner, 1867 Litoria cavernicola Tyler & Davies, 1979 Litoria chloris (Boulenger, 1892) Litoria chloristona Menzies, Richards & Tyler, 2008 Litoria chloronota (Boulenger, 1911) Litoria chrisdahli Richards, 2007 Litoria christianbergmanni Günther, 2008 Litoria citropa (Péron, 1807) Litoria congenita (Peters & Doria, 1878) Litoria contrastens (Tyler, 1968) Litoria cooloolensis Liem, 1974 Litoria coplandi (Tyler, 1968) Litoria corbeni (Wells & Wellington, 1985) Litoria cryptotis (Tyler & Martin, 1977) Litoria cultripes (Parker, 1940) Litoria cyclorhyncha (Boulenger, 1882) Litoria dahlii (Boulenger, 1896) Litoria daraiensis Richards, Donnellan & Oliver, 2023 [ 6] Litoria darlingtoni (Loveridge, 1945) Litoria daviesae Mahony, Knowles, Foster & Donnellan, 2001 Litoria dayi (Günther, 1897) Litoria dentata (Keferstein, 1868) Litoria dorsalis Macleay, 1878 Litoria dorsivena (Tyler, 1968) Litoria dux Richards & Oliver, 2006 Litoria electrica Ingram & Corben, 1990 Litoria elkeae Günther & Richards, 2000 Litoria eschata Kraus & Allison, 2009 Litoria eucnemis (Lönnberg, 1900) Litoria eurynastes Menzies, Richards & Tyler, 2008 Litoria everetti (Boulenger, 1897) Litoria ewingii (Duméril & Bibron, 1841) Litoria exophthalmia Tyler, Davies & Aplin, 1986 Litoria fallax (Peters, 1880) Litoria flavescens Kraus & Allison, 2004 Litoria freycineti Tschudi, 1838 Litoria fuscula Oliver & Richards, 2007 Litoria gasconi Richards, Oliver, Krey & Tjaturadi, 2009 Litoria genimaculata (Horst, 1883) Litoria gilleni Spencer, 1896 Litoria gracilenta (Peters, 1869) Litoria gracilis Richards, Donnellan & Oliver, 2023 [ 6] Litoria graminea (Boulenger, 1905) Litoria haematogaster Richards, Donnellan & Oliver, 2023 [ 6] Litoria hastula Oliver, Iskandar & Richards, 2023 [ 7] Litoria havina Menzies, 1993 Litoria hilli Hiaso & Richards, 2006 Litoria humboldtorum Günther, 2006 Litoria hunti Richards, Oliver, Dahl & Tjaturadi, 2006 Litoria impura (Peters & Doria, 1878) Litoria inermis (Peters, 1867) Litoria infrafrenata (Günther, 1867) Litoria iris (Tyler, 1962) Litoria jervisiensis (Duméril & Bibron, 1841) Litoria jeudii (Werner, 1901) Litoria jungguy Donnellan & Mahony, 2004 Litoria kroombitensis Hoskin, Hines, Meyer, Clarke & Cunningham, 2013 [ 8] Litoria kumae Menzies & Tyler, 2004 Litoria lakekamu Richards & Bickford, 2023 [ 9] Litoria latopalmata Günther, 1867 Litoria lesueurii (Duméril & Bibron, 1841) Litoria leucova (Tyler, 1968) Litoria lisae Richards, Donnellan & Oliver, 2023 [ 10] Litoria littlejohni White, Whitford & Mahony, 1994 Litoria lodesdema Menzies, Richards & Tyler, 2008 Litoria longicrus (Boulenger, 1911) Litoria longipes (Tyler & Martin, 1977) Litoria longirostris Tyler & Davies, 1977 Litoria lorica Davies & McDonald, 1979 Litoria louisiadensis (Tyler, 1968) Litoria lutea (Boulenger, 1887) Litoria macki Richards, 2001 Litoria maculosa (Tyler & Martin, 1977) Litoria maini (Tyler & Martin, 1977) Litoria majikthise Johnston & Richards, 1994 Litoria manya (Van Beurden & McDonald, 1980) Litoria mareku Günther, 2008 Litoria megalops Richards & Iskandar, 2006 Litoria meiriana (Tyler, 1969) Litoria microbelos (Cogger, 1966) Litoria micromembrana (Tyler, 1963) Litoria mira Oliver, Rittmeyer, Torkkola, Donnellan, Dahl & Richards 2020 Litoria modica (Tyler, 1968) Litoria moorei (Copland, 1957) Litoria mucro Menzies, 1993 Litoria multicolor Günther, 2004 Litoria multiplica (Tyler, 1964) Litoria myola Hoskin, 2007 Litoria mystax (Van Kampen, 1906) Litoria naispela Richards, Donnellan & Oliver, 2023 [ 6] Litoria nannotis (Andersson, 1916) Litoria napaea (Tyler, 1968) Litoria nasuta (Gray, 1842) Litoria nigrofrenata (Günther, 1867) Litoria nigropunctata (Meyer, 1875) Litoria novaehollandiae (Steindachner, 1867) Litoria nudidigita (Copland, 1963) Litoria nyakalensis Liem, 1974 Litoria obtusirostris Meyer, 1875 Litoria oenicolen Menzies & Zweifel, 1974 Litoria ollauro Menzies, 1993 Litoria olongburensis Liem & Ingram, 1977 Litoria pallida Davies, Martin & Watson, 1983 Litoria pallidofemora Kraus, 2018 Litoria paraewingi Watson, Loftus-Hills & Littlejohn, 1971 Litoria pearsoniana (Copland, 1961) Litoria peronii (Tschudi, 1838) Litoria personata Tyler, Davies & Martin, 1978 Litoria phyllochroa (Günther, 1863) Litoria pinocchio Litoria piperata Tyler & Davies, 1985 Litoria platycephala (Günther, 1873) Litoria pratti (Boulenger, 1911) Litoria pronimia Menzies, 1993 Litoria prora (Menzies, 1969) Litoria pterodactyla Litoria purpureolata Oliver, Richards, Tjaturadi & Iskandar, 2007 Litoria pygmaea (Meyer, 1875) Litoria quadrilineata Tyler & Parker, 1974 Litoria raniformis (Keferstein, 1867) Litoria rara Günther & Richards, 2005 Litoria revelata Ingram, Corben & Hosmer, 1982 Litoria rheocola Liem, 1974 Litoria richardsi Dennis & Cunningham, 2006 Litoria ridibunda Donnellan, Catullo, Rowley, Doughty, Price, Hines & Richards, 2023 [ 11] Litoria rivicola Günther & Richards, 2005 Litoria robinsonae Oliver, Stuart-Fox & Richards, 2008 Litoria rothii (De Vis, 1884) Litoria rubella (Gray, 1842) Litoria rubrops Kraus & Allison, 2004 Litoria sanguinolenta (Van Kampen, 1909) Litoria sauroni Richards & Oliver, 2006 Litoria scabra Günther & Richards, 2005 Litoria serrata (Andersson, 1916) Litoria singadanae Richards, 2005 Litoria spartacus Richards & Oliver, 2006 Litoria spenceri Dubois, 1984 Litoria spinifera (Tyler, 1968) Litoria splendida Tyler, Davies & Martin, 1977 Litoria staccato Doughty & Anstis, 2007 Litoria stellarum Richards, Johnston & Oliver, 2025 [ 12] Litoria subglandulosa Tyler & Anstis, 1983 Litoria thesaurensis (Peters, 1877) Litoria timida Tyler & Parker, 1972 Litoria tornieri (Nieden, 1923) Litoria tyleri Martin, Watson, Gartside, Littlejohn & Loftus-Hills, 1979 Litoria umarensis Günther, 2004 Litoria umbonata Tyler & Davies, 1983 Litoria vagabunda (Peters & Doria, 1878) Litoria vagitus (Tyler, Davies & Martin, 1981) Litoria verae Günther, 2004 Litoria verreauxii (Duméril, 1853) Litoria verrucosa (Tyler & Martin, 1977) Litoria viranula Menzies, Richards & Tyler, 2008 Litoria vivissimia Litoria vocivincens Menzies, 1972 Litoria wapogaensis Richards & Iskandar, 2001 Litoria watjulumensis (Copland, 1957) Litoria wilcoxii Günther, 1864 Litoria wisselensis (Tyler, 1968) Litoria wollastoni (Boulenger, 1914) Litoria xanthomera Davies, McDonald & Adams, 1986 Litoria zweifeli (Tyler, 1967)
Además Litoria papua (Van Kampen, 1909) también podría pertenecer al género.
Galería
Litoria novaehollandiae Litoria novaehollandiae
Litoria xanthomera Litoria xanthomera
Referencias
↑ Sinonimia en Wikispecies ↑ Frost, D.R. « Litoria » . Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.2. (en inglés) . Nueva York, EE.UU.: Museo Americano de Historia Natural. Consultado el 25 de mayo de 2015 . ↑ Doughty P. 2011. An emerging frog diversity hotspot in the northwest Kimberley of Western Australia: another new frog species from the high rainfall zone. Records of the Western Australian Museum 26: 209-218.
↑ Rainer Günther, Stephen J. Richards, Amir Hamidy, Wahyu Trilaksono, Taufan N. Sulaeman and Paul M. Oliver. 2023. A New large Green Treefrog (Litoria: Pelodryadidae) from western New Guinea, with the Description of A New Diagnostic Character for the Litoria graminea Group. RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY. 71; 417–429
↑ Kraus F. 2013. A new treefrog of the Litoria gracilenta group (Hylidae) from Papua New Guinea. Proc Biological Soc Washington 126: 151-160.
↑ a b c d Stephen J. Richards, Stephen C. Donnellan and Paul M. Oliver. 2023.Five New Species of the pelodryadid Genus Litoria Tschudi from the southern versant of Papua New Guinea’s Central Cordillera, with Observations on the Diversification of Reproductive Strategies in Melanesian Treefrogs. Zootaxa. 5263(2); 151-190
↑ Paul M. Oliver, Djoko T. Iskandar and Stephen J. Richards. 2023 A New Species of Torrent-breeding Treefrog (Pelodryadidae: Litoria) from the mountains of Papua, Indonesia, with New Records and Observations of Litoria dorsivena (Tyler, 1968). Vertebrate Zoology. 73: 127-139.
↑ Conrad J. Hoskin, Harry B. Hines, Ed Meyer, John Clarke & Michael Cunningham. 2013. A new treefrog (Hylidae: Litoria ) from Kroombit Tops, east Australia, and an assessment of conservation status. Zootaxa 3646 (4): 426–446.
↑ Stephen J. Richards & David Bickford. 2023. A New Species of Small Green Treefrog (Pelodryadidae: Litoria) from the Lakekamu Basin in Southern Papua New Guinea. Current Herpetology 42 (1): 43-54.
↑ Stephen J. Richards, Stephen C. Donnellan and Paul M. Oliver. 2023.Five New Species of the pelodryadid Genus Litoria Tschudi from the southern versant of Papua New Guinea’s Central Cordillera, with Observations on the Diversification of Reproductive Strategies in Melanesian Treefrogs. Zootaxa. 5263(2); 151-190
↑ S.C. Donnellan, R.A. Catullo, J.J.L. Rowley, P. Doughty, L. Price, H.B. Hines and S.J. Richards. 2023. Revision of Litoria rothii (Anura: Pelodryadidae) from northern Australia. Zootaxa. 5352(1); 73-108. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5352.1.3
↑ Stephen J. RICHARDS, Gregory R. JOHNSTON and Paul M. OLIVER. 2025. A New montane Species of Stream-dwelling Treefrog (Pelodryadidae) from the Star Mountains, Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa. 5661(2); 221-236. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5661.2.4
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