Species Litoria fallax (Peters, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hylomantis fallax Peters, W. 1880. Mitteilung über neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien des Berliner Zoologischen Museums. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1880: 217-224 [1881 on title page] [224, fig. 4].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB 5887 2 specimens, Rockhampton, QLD; ZMB 5925 2 specimens, Rockhampton, QLD; ZMB 6633 2 specimens, Port Mackay, QLD; ZMB 9650, Port Bowen, QLD.
• Hyla bicolor glauerti 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 [16].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R18585, Colo, near Sydney, NSW.

 

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. [43]

 

Generic Combinations

• Litoria fallax (Peters, 1880). —
  Watson, G.F. & Martin, A.A. 1979. Early development of the Australian green hylid frogs, Litoria chloris, L. fallax and L. gracilenta. The Australian Zoologist 20: 259-268

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

From around Cairns in N QLD along the east side of the Great Dividing Range to about Eden NSW, this range thought to be expanding with multiple populations establishing well outside this range, see Rowley & Callaghan (2023) for details.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, tall forest, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Free-living tadpole.

 

General References

Cogger, H.G. & Lindner, D.A. 1974. Frogs and reptiles. Fauna Survey of the Port Essington District, Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory of Australia. In Frith, H.J. & Calaby, J.H. (eds) CSIRO Div. Wildlf. Tech. Pap. 28: 63–107. (taxonomy)

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

Straughan, I.R. 1968. The Hyla bicolor complex (Anura: Hylidae) in north Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 80: 43-54 (taxonomy, as Hyla glauerti)

Watson, G.F. & Martin, A.A. 1979. Early development of the Australian green hylid frogs, Litoria chloris, L. fallax and L. gracilenta. The Australian Zoologist 20: 259-268

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	AMPHIBIA	19-Dec-2023	MODIFIED
04-Feb-2023	AMPHIBIA	07-Dec-2023	MODIFIED
31-Jan-2017		16-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
31-Jan-2017		13-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED