Biology:Nyctimystes hunti

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Nyctimystes hunti
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Nyctimystes
Species:
N. hunti
Binomial name
Nyctimystes hunti
(Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006)
Synonyms[2]
  • Litoria hunti Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006
  • Litoria huntorum Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006

Nyctimystes hunti is a species of tree frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. It is endemic to northern Papua New Guinea. Scientists have seen it only in Utai, Sanduan Province, but predict that also lives elsewhere on New Guinea.[1][2][3]

The adult male frog has nuptial pads on its feet and 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.[4]

Its front feet are fully webbed and its call is deep and guttural in quality.[4]

As this frog was heard calling from the trees 5 to 8 meters above the ground, it is considered likely that it lays eggs in pools on the forest floor.[4]

References

  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 "Nyctimystes hunti (Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006)". American Museum of Natural History. https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Pelodryadidae/Pelodryadinae/Nyctimystes/Nyctimystes-hunti. 
  3. "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=. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 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. 

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