Biology:Litoria hunti
| Litoria hunti | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Litoria |
| Species: | L. hunti
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| Binomial name | |
| Litoria hunti Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006[2]
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Litoria hunti is a tree frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to 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]
The adult male frog has pads on its feet called nuptual pads. The adult male frog is 57.9-60.4 mm long in snout-vent length. It is bright green on the dorsum and sometimes has a white stripe from its jaw to its tympanum. The climbing discs on its feet are white. It has vomerine teeth in its upper jaw.[2]
Its front feet are fully webbed and its call is deep and guttural in quality.[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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Stephen Richards (2008). Litoria hunti. 2008. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. p. e.T136072A4247362. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136072A4247362.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136072/4247362. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290098597. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Nyctimystes hunti (Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006)". American Museum of Natural History. https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Pelodryadidae/Pelodryadinae/Nyctimystes/Nyctimystes-hunti.
- ↑ "Litoria hunti". Amphibiaweb. https://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?rel-common_name=like&rel-family=equals&rel-ordr=equals&rel-intro_isocc=like&rel-description=like&rel-distribution=like&rel-life_history=like&rel-trends_and_threats=like&rel-relation_to_humans=like&rel-comments=like&rel-submittedby=like&max=200&orderbyaw=Genus%2Bspecies&include_synonymies=Yes&show_photos=Yes&rel-scientific_name=contains&where-scientific_name=Litoria+hunti&rel-genus=equals&where-genus=&rel-species=equals&where-species=&where-common_name=&where-clade=&where-subfamily=&where-family=any&where-ordr=any&rel-isocc=occurs+in&where-isocc=&rel-species_account=matchboolean&where-species_account=&rel-declinecauses=equals&where-declinecauses=&rel-iucn=begins+with&where-iucn=&rel-cites=equals&where-cites=&where-submittedby=.
Wikidata ☰ Q3256607 entry
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