Species Litoria rubella (Gray, 1842)
Little Red Tree Frog, Desert Tree Frog, Red Tree Frog, Ruddy Tree Frog
- Hyla rubella 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:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1947.2.24.7–9, Port Essington, NT. - Hyla (Litoria) mystacina 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 [356].
Type data:
Holotype ZFMK (ex ZMG 102e), Australia. - H[yla] nigrogularis 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 [358] [nom. nud., introduced in synonomy, ex Krefft ms].
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. [49]
Generic Combinations
- Litoria rubella (Gray, 1842).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Extra-limital in southern New Guinea
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, lentic freshwater, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low shrubland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, open scrub, predator, riparian, swamp, tall forest, tall open shrubland, tall shrubland, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
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)
Main, A.R. 1965. Frogs of southern Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist Club Handbook 8: 1-73 (natural history)
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)
Tyler, M.J. 1978. Amphibians of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government 84 pp. (natural history)
Warburg, M.R. 1965. Studies on the water economy of some Australian frogs. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 317-330
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 | 23-Aug-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 31-Jan-2017 | ANURA Fischer von Waldheim, 1813 | 03-Feb-2017 | MODIFIED | |
| 31-Jan-2017 | HYLIDAE | 19-Oct-2016 | MODIFIED | |
| 31-Jan-2017 | 16-Oct-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 31-Jan-2017 | 13-Aug-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 23-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED |