Northern New Guinea tree frog

Northern New Guinea tree frog
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Pelodryadidae
Genus:	Nyctimystes
Species:	N. gramineus
Binomial name
Nyctimystes gramineus (Boulinger, 1905)[2]
Synonyms
Hyla graminea (Boulenger, 1905) Litoria graminea (Tyler, 1971) Litoria dux (Richards and Oliver, 2006) Dryopsophus gramineus (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016) Nyctimystes dux (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016) Ranoidea graminea (Dubois and Frétey, 2016) Nytimystes gramineus (American Museum of Natural History, 2018)[2]

The Northern New Guinea tree frog (Nytimystes gramineus) is a tree frog from Papua New Guinea.^[2][3][1]

This is a canopy-dwelling frog, meaning it lives high in the branches of the trees where the leaves grow. For a while, scientists thought Litoria dux was a different species, but some scientists now think Litoria dux is part of Litoria graminea.^[4]

References

1. Richards, S.; Allison, A. (2004). "Northern New Guinea Treefrog: Litoria graminea". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T55724A11357366. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T55724A11357366.en. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
2. "Nyctimystes gramineus (Boulenger, 1905)". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
3. "Northern New Guinea Tree Frog: Nyctimystes graminea". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
4. Fred Kraus (August 8, 2018). "Taxonomy of Litoria graminea (Anura: Hylidae), with descriptions of two closely related new species (Abstract)". Zootaxa. 4457 (2): 264–284. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4457.2.3. PMID 30314169. S2CID 52972250. Retrieved July 27, 2020.