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Litoria (Australiasian treefrog)
Taxonomy
Litoria was named by Tschudi (1838). It is extant. Its type is Litoria tylerantiqua.
It was assigned to Hylidae by Tyler (1977), Tyler (1981), Worthy (1997); to Pelodryadinae by Sanchiz (1998); and to Pelodryadidae by Farman et al. (2025).
It was assigned to Hylidae by Tyler (1977), Tyler (1981), Worthy (1997); to Pelodryadinae by Sanchiz (1998); and to Pelodryadidae by Farman et al. (2025).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1838 | Litoria Tschudi |
| 1977 | Litoria Tyler p. 86 |
| 1981 | Litoria Tyler p. 102 |
| 1997 | Litoria Worthy p. 92 |
| 1998 | Litoria Sanchiz |
| 2025 | Litoria Farman et al. p. 8 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Litoria Tschudi 1838 [Australiasian treefrog]
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Litoria caerulea White 1790 [Australian green tree frog]
Litoria ewingi Duméril and Bibron 1841 [southern brown tree frog]
Litoria raniformis Keferstein 1867
†Litoria tylerantiqua Farman et al. 2025
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Uhen 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Holocene or 56.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.07 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.07 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ypresian | Australia (Queensland) | Litoria tylerantiqua (59088) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Australia (South Australia) | Litoria sp., Litoria caerulea (28194) | |
| Aquitanian - Burdigalian | Australia (Queensland) | Litoria sp. (183096) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Litoria ewingi (28298) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Litoria ewingi (136072) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand (South Island) | Litoria ewingii, Litoria raniformis (215388 215581) |