Species Litoria lesueuri (Duméril & Bibron, 1841)
Southern Stony Creek Frog, Southern Stony-creek Frog
- Hyla lesueuri Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1841. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Paris : Roret Vol. 8 ii 792 pp. [595].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP 4845, Sydney, NSW (as Port Jackson). - Ranoidea flavoviridus Girard, C. 1853. Descriptions of new species of reptiles, collected by the U.S. Exploring Expedition, under the command of Capt. Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Second Part. Including the species of batrachians, exotic to North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6: 420-424 [1854 on title page] [422].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not found), Wollongong, Illawarra, NSW. - Euscelis lessonii Fitzinger, L. 1860. Ausbeute der Österreichischen Naturforscher an Säugethiere und Reptilien während der Weltumsegelung Sr. Majestat Fregatte Novara. Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 42: 384-416 [413] [nom. nov. for Hyla lesueurii Duméril & Bibron,1841 and for Hyla oculata Péron, ms.].
- Hyla (Litoria) freycinetii unicolor Keferstein, W. 1867. Ueber einige neue oder seltene Batrachier aus Australien und dem tropischen Amerika. Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 18: 341-361 [355].
Type data:
Holotype ZMG 102c (presumed lost), Australia. - Hyla vinosa Lamb, J. 1911. Description of three new batrachians from southern Queensland. Annals of the Queensland Museum 10: 26-28 [27].
Type data:
Holotype QM J74, Ithaca Creek, Brisbane, QLD. - Hyla kinghorni Loveridge, A. 1950. New frogs of the genera Cyclorana and Hyla from south-eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 63: 131-138 [132].
Type data:
Holotype AM R13818 (ex CAS 83234), Ulong, NSW. - Hyla citripoda Péron, F. 1807. Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes executé par ordre de S.M. l'empereur et roi, sur les Corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste, et la goulette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Tome 1, partie historique. Paris : Arthus Bertrand Vol. 1. [407] [nom. oblit.].
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. [45-46] (listed Hyla citripoda as species incertae sedis, p. 260)
- Tyler, M.J. & Morère, J-J. 1988. Section 77 Batrachians. pp. 275-284 in Bonnemains, J., Forsyth, E. & Smith, B. (eds). Baudin in Australian Waters. The artwork of the French voyage of discovery to the Southern Lands 1800–1804. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xi 347 pp. (for Hyla citripoda Péron)
Generic Combinations
- Litoria lesueuri (Duméril & Bibron, 1841).
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC)
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, closed forest, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, nocturnal, open forest, predator, tall forest, terrestrial, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Seasonal breeder, free-living tadpole.
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)
Donnellan, S.C. & Mahony, M.J. 2004. Allozyme, chromosomal and morphological variability in the Litoria leseuri species group (Anura: Hylidae), including a description of a new species. Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 1-28 (resolution of cryptic species using molecular methods and phylogenetic analyses)
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)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 07-Feb-2024 | AMPHIBIA | 19-Dec-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 04-Feb-2023 | AMPHIBIA | 08-Dec-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 31-Jan-2017 | 16-Oct-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 31-Jan-2017 | 13-Aug-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 23-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED |