Litoria purpureolata
| Litoria purpureolata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae |
| Genus: | Litoria |
| Species: | L. purpureolata
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| Binomial name | |
| Litoria purpureolata (Oliver, Richards, Tjaturadi, and Iskandar, 2007)[2]
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Litoria purpureolata is a tree frog from the island of New Guinea. Scientists have only found it in Papua Province in Indonesia and West Sepak Province in Papua New Guinea.[1][2][3][4]
The adult male frog is 56 to 68 mm long from nose to rear end, which is large for a frog in Nyctimystes or Litoria. Unlike many tree frogs, it has only a small stripe down its side or no stripe at all. It has green skin with some white on its front legs and rear legs. It has a light brown arc on its ear. Some of the webbing between its toes is purple in color.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Litoria purpureolata". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Nyctimystes purpureolatus (Oliver, Richards, Tjaturadi, and Iskandar, 2007)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Paul Oliver; Stephen J. Richards; Burhan Tjaturadi; Djoko Iskandar (2007). "A new large green species of Litoria (Anura: Hylidae) from western New Guinea" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1519 1: 7–26. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
- ↑ Stephen Richards (2008). "Litoria purpureolata". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T135895A4217680. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135895A4217680.en. Retrieved August 10, 2020.