Species Litoria rothii (De Vis, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hyla rothii De Vis, C.W. 1884. On some new batrachians from Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 65-68 [1885 on title page] [66].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (formerly QM, not found), Mackay, QLD; whereabouts unknown (3 syntypes exchanged to BMNH, not found), Mackay, QLD.

 

Generic Combinations

• Litoria rothii (De Vis, 1884). —
  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]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Records from NT and WA represent L. ridibunda, see Donnellan et al. (2023); Extra-limital in southern New Guinea

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, low open woodland, nocturnal, open forest, predator, riparian, swamp, tall forest, tall open shrubland, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, 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)

Donnellan, S.C., Catullo, R.A., Rowley, J.J.L., Doughty, P., Price, L., Hines, H.B. & Richards, S.J. 2023. Revision of Litoria rothii (Anura: Pelodryadidae) from northern Australia. Zootaxa 5352(1): 073–108

Martin, A.A., Watson, G.F., Gartside, D.F., Littlejohn, M.J. & Loftus-Hills, J.J. 1979. A new species of the Litoria peronii complex (Anura: Hylidae) from eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 103: 23-35 (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	AMPHIBIA	19-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
04-Feb-2023	AMPHIBIA	08-Dec-2022	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