Zweifel's big-eyed tree frog

Zweifel's big-eyed tree frog (Litoria zweifeli) is a tree frog from Papua New Guinea.[2] It lives in forests and wetlands not near the ocean.[1]

Zweifel's big-eyed tree frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Litoria
Species:
L. zweifeli
Binomial name
Litoria zweifeli
Tyler, 1967[2]
Synonyms[2]
  • Nyctimystes zweifeli (Tyler, 1967)
  • Litoria zweifeli (rost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Nyctimyates zweifeli (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)

Some scientists, for example Paul Menzies, say this frog is closely related to Grant's big-eyed tree frog.[2]

This frog was named after the scientist Richard George Zweifel.[3] Zweifel described, or wrote the first formal papers about, many other frogs and wrote many studies about frogs and other amphibians.

References
  1. Stephen Richards; Fred Parker (2004). "Zweifel's Big-eyed Treefrog: Litoria zweifeli". 2004. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T55788A11356317. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T55788A11356317.en. Retrieved August 13, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Nyctimystes zweifeli Tyler, 1967". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  3. Bo Beolens; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (April 22, 2020). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. ISBN 9781907807428. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
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