Litoria hunti
Litoria hunti is a tree frog from northern Papua New Guinea. The New Guineans call it "Wowo."[2] Scientists have only seen it in Utai, which is in Sanduan Province, but they think it lives in many other places on the island of New Guinea.[1][3][4]
| Litoria hunti | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae |
| Genus: | Litoria |
| Species: | L. hunti |
| Binomial name | |
| Litoria hunti (Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006)[2] | |
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The adult male frog has pads on its feet called nuptial pads. The adult male frog is 57.9-60.4 mm long from nose to rear end. It is bright green on the back and sometimes has a white stripe from its jaw to its ear. The climbing discs on its feet are white. It has vomerine teeth in its upper jaw.[2]
Scientists could hear this frog calling from the trees 5 to 8 meters above the ground, so they think it lays eggs in pools on the forest floor. But they did not see the frogs doing this.[2]
References
- Stephen Richards (2008). "Litoria hunti". 2008. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T136072A4247362. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136072A4247362.en. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Stephen J. Richards; Paul Oliver; Chris Dahl; Burhan Tjaturadi; Guido Sautter (2006). "A new species of large green treefrog (Anura: Hylidae: Litoria) from northern New Guinea". Zootaxa. 1208: 57–68. doi:10.5281/zenodo.172420. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- "Nyctimystes hunti (Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
- "Litoria hunti". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
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