Slender bleating tree frog
| Slender bleating tree frog | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae |
| Genus: | Colleeneremia |
| Species: | C. balatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Colleeneremia balatus | |
The slender bleating tree frog (Colleeneremia balatus), is a frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to Australia, where it is found throughout Southeast Queensland south from around Maryborough and extending west to the Bunya Mountains and Stanthorpe and south into northeastern NSW.[1][2][3][4] This is the "bleating tree frog" that occurs around Brisbane.[5]
It was long confused with the robust bleating tree frog (C. dentata) and was thus only described as a distinct species in 2021. Rowley et al (2021) distinguished three distinct clades in what was formerly considered a single species (Colleeneremia dentata), based on genetic divergence, slight morphological differences, and notable differences in vocalizations; the latter were collected via the FrogID Australia citizen science project. One of these was the robust bleating tree frog (C. dentata sensu stricto), another was the slender bleating tree frog (C. balatus), and last was the screaming tree frog (C. quiritatus). The slender bleating tree frog has the shortest call out of the three species, has a more slender build than the other two, a white line extending down its side, and males have a distinctly black vocal sac during breeding season.[6][7][8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Spatial search: Litoria balatus". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Litoria balatus Rowley, Mahony, Hines, Myers, Price, Shea, and Donnellan, 2021". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ↑ "Litoria balatus:Rowley, Mahony, Hines, Myers, Price, Shea & Donnellan, 2021: Slender Bleating Tree Frog". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ↑ Rowley JJL; Mahony MJ; Hines HB; Myers S; Price LC; Shea GM; Donnellan SC (2021). "Two new frog species from the Litoria rubella species group from eastern Australia". Zootaxa. 5071 (1): 1–41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5071.1.1. PMID 34810683. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ↑ Rowley, Jodi (22 November 2021). "Bleating or screaming? Two new, very loud, frog species described in eastern Australia". The Australian Museum. Retrieved 2025-05-13.
- ↑ "Surprise discovery of two new 'very loud' frog species". UNSW Newsroom. 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
- ↑ "Two new 'loud' frog species have been found along the east coast of Australia". Australian Geographic. 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
- ↑ "Two New Species of Tree Frogs Discovered in Australia | Sci.News". Sci.News: Breaking Science News. 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
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