Papua big-eyed tree frog

Papua big-eyed tree frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Nyctimystes
Species:
N. papua
Binomial name
Nyctimystes papua
(Boulinger, 1897)[1]
Synonyms
  • Nyctimantis papua (Boulenger, 1897)
  • Nyctimystes papua (Stejneger, 1916)
  • Hyla papua (Noble 1931)
  • Litoria papua (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)[1]

The Papua big-eyed tree frog (Nyctimystes papua) is a tree frog from Papua New Guinea. It lives in southeastern New Guinea, from Mount Albert-Edward in the west to Mount Dayman in the east. It lives 1200–2600 m above sea level.[1][2][3][4][5]

The adult male frog is about 4.6 to 5.1 cm long and the female about 7.0 cm long. The sampled frogs could be gray or brown with some yellow. This frog has less of a pattern on its lower eyelids than other frogs in Nyctimystes do.[5]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Nyctimystes papua". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
  2. ↑ Richard George Zweifel (1958). "Frogs of the Papuan hylid genus Nyctimystes. American Museum novitates; no. 1896". American Museum of Natural History. hdl:2246/4567. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Nyctimystes papua". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ Stephen Richards; Richard Zweifel (2004). "Papua Big-eyed Treefrog: Nyctimystes papua". 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T55780A11354620. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T55780A11354620.en. Retrieved July 13, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Richard G. Zweifel (1958). "Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 78 Frogs of the Papuan Hylid Genus Nyctimystes" (PDF). American Museum of Natural History. p. 28. S2CID 54698209. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2020. Retrieved July 13, 2020.