Species Litoria nasuta (Gray, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pelodytes nasutus Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians. pp. 51-57 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würz & Co. [56].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1947.2.22.81, Port Essington, NT.
• Hyla peninsulae De Vis, C.W. 1884. On a new species of Hyla. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 1: 128-130 [130].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (presumed lost), Cape York, QLD.
• Hyla semoni Boettger, O. 1894. Lurche (Batrachia). pp. 107-114 in Semon, R. (ed.). Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 5. [112].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMF 2625 (cited as SMF 1414, 2a in original description), Bou, Milne Bay, SE New Guinea.

  Type locality references:

  Semon, R. 1899. In the Australian Bush and on the Coast of the Coral Sea. London : Macmillan Co. 552 pp. [385].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [47]

 

Generic Combinations

• Litoria nasuta (Gray, 1842).
• Hyla nasuta (Gray, 1842).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital in New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, low open woodland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, open scrub, predator, swamp, tall forest, tall shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, free-living tadpole, breeds in swamps.

 

General References

Copland, S.J. 1957. Presidential address. Australian tree frogs of the genus Hyla. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 82: 9-108 (taxonomy)

Moore, J.A. 1961. The frogs of eastern New South Wales. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 121: 149-386 (taxonomy, natural history)

Peile, A.R. 1978. Gugadja aborigines and frogs. Herpetofauna 10: 9-14 (ethnobiology)

Tyler, M.J. 1968. A taxonomic study of hylid frogs of the Hyla lesueuri complex occurring in north-western Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 711-727 (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Feb-2023	AMPHIBIA	08-Dec-2022	MODIFIED
31-Jan-2017	ANURA Fischer von Waldheim, 1813	03-Feb-2017	MODIFIED
31-Jan-2017		16-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
31-Jan-2017		13-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED