Biology:Amnihyla

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Amnihyla is a genus of tree frogs in the family Pelodryadidae, native to New Guinea and its surrounding islands. [1]

Species of this genus inhabit most natural habitats in New Guinea from the lowland forests to montane grasslands. The frogs are mostly arboreal or semi-aquatic and breed in streams and torrents. [2]

Species

Many of the species in this genus were part of the wastebasket genus Litoria until it was split into multiple genera after a comprehensive phylogenetic study in 2025:[2]

  • Amnihyla amnicola (Richards, Tjaturadi, Krey, and Donnellan, 2021)
  • Amnihyla angiana (Boulenger, 1915) - Angiana tree frog
  • Amnihyla arfakiana (Peters and Doria, 1878) - Arfakiana tree frog
  • Amnihyla becki (Loveridge, 1945) - Beck's tree frog
  • Amnihyla brongersmai (Loveridge, 1945)
  • Amnihyla bulmeri (Tyler, 1968) - Bulmer's tree frog
  • Amnihyla dorsivena (Tyler, 1968) - Eastern mountains tree frog
  • Amnihyla fuscula (Oliver and Richards, 2007)
  • Amnihyla grinpela (Richards and Oliver, 2024)
  • Amnihyla hastula (Oliver, Iskandar, and Richards, 2023)
  • Amnihyla kikori (Richards and Oliver, 2024)
  • Amnihyla lakekamu (Richards and Bickford, 2023)
  • Amnihyla leucova (Tyler, 1968) - West Sepik tree frog
  • Amnihyla longicrus (Boulenger, 1911) - Wendessi tree frog
  • Amnihyla macki (Richards, 2001)
  • Amnihyla megalops (Richards and Iskandar, 2006)
  • Amnihyla micromembrana (Tyler, 1963) - Nodugl tree frog
  • Amnihyla modica (Tyler, 1968) - Oruge tree frog
  • Amnihyla napaea (Tyler, 1968) - Snow Mountains tree frog
  • Amnihyla oenicolen (Menzies and Zweifel, 1974) - Trauna River tree frog
  • Amnihyla pratti (Boulenger, 1911)
  • Amnihyla rara (Günther and Richards, 2005)
  • Amnihyla rivicola (Günther and Richards, 2005)
  • Amnihyla scabra (Günther and Richards, 2005)
  • Amnihyla skeliphros (Oliver, McDonald, Dahl, Nagombi, and Richards, 2024)
  • Amnihyla spartacus (Richards and Oliver, 2006)
  • Amnihyla spinifera (Tyler, 1968)
  • Amnihyla stellarum (Richards, Johnston, and Oliver, 2025)
  • Amnihyla wollastoni (Boulenger, 1914) - Highland tree frog

References

  1. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2026). "Amnihyla Richards, Mahony, and Donnellan, 2025". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.2. American Museum of Natural History. https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Pelodryadidae/amnihyla. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Donnellan, Stephen C.; Mahony, Michael J.; Esquerré, Damien; Brennan, Ian G.; Price, Luke C.; Lemmon, Alan; Moriarty Lemmon, Emily; Günther, Rainer et al. (2025-06-19). "Phylogenomics informs a generic revision of the Australo-Paupuan treefrogs (Anura: Pelodryadidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Oxford Academic) 204 (2): 1-80. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf015. https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/204/2/zlaf015/8169202. Retrieved 2026-04-01. 

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