Biology:Wahai tree frog

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Short description: Species of amphibian

Wahai tree frog
Litoria vagabunda Peters Doria 1878.png
L. vagabunda, (a) underside of hand, and (b) open mouth.
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: "Litoria"
Species:
"L." vagabunda
Binomial name
"Litoria" vagabunda
(Peters and Doria, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Hyla (Litoria) vagabunda Peters and Doria, 1878[2]

The Wahai tree frog ("Litoria" vagabunda) is a species of frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae, endemic to Indonesia and known from the Vogelkop Peninsula in the north-western New Guinea, and from the Seram Island, one of the Maluku Islands (also known as the Moluccas).[1][3] Little is known about this lowland species that has not been collected after it was described in 1878.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Litoria vagabunda". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T55757A149631565. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55757A149631565.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/55757/149631565. Retrieved 15 November 2021. 
  2. Peters, W.; Doria, G. (1878). "Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova.". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 13: 424–426. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33921420; Pl. VI, Fig. 3. 
  3. Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Litoria vagabunda (Peters and Doria, 1878)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia123/index.php//Amphibia/Anura/Pelodryadidae/Pelobiinae/Litoria/Litoria-vagabunda. Retrieved 11 May 2016. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q826547 entry