Amnihyla
| Amnihyla | |
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| Arfakiana tree frog (Amnihyla arfakiana) in Manokwari Regency, Indonesia | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae |
| Genus: | Amnihyla Richards, Mahony, and Donnellan, 2025 |
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Amnihyla is a genus of tree frogs in the family Pelodryadidae, native to New Guinea and its surrounding islands. [1]
Species of this genus inhabit most natural habitats in New Guinea from the lowland forests to montane grasslands. The frogs are mostly arboreal or semi-aquatic and breed in streams and torrents. [2]
Species
[edit]Many of the species in this genus were part of the wastebasket genus Litoria until it was split into multiple genera after a comprehensive phylogenetic study in 2025:[2]
- Amnihyla amnicola (Richards, Tjaturadi, Krey, and Donnellan, 2021)
- Amnihyla angiana (Boulenger, 1915) - Angiana tree frog
- Amnihyla arfakiana (Peters and Doria, 1878) - Arfakiana tree frog
- Amnihyla becki (Loveridge, 1945) - Beck's tree frog
- Amnihyla brongersmai (Loveridge, 1945)
- Amnihyla bulmeri (Tyler, 1968) - Bulmer's tree frog
- Amnihyla dorsivena (Tyler, 1968) - Eastern mountains tree frog
- Amnihyla fuscula (Oliver and Richards, 2007)
- Amnihyla grinpela (Richards and Oliver, 2024)
- Amnihyla hastula (Oliver, Iskandar, and Richards, 2023)
- Amnihyla kikori (Richards and Oliver, 2024)
- Amnihyla lakekamu (Richards and Bickford, 2023)
- Amnihyla leucova (Tyler, 1968) - West Sepik tree frog
- Amnihyla longicrus (Boulenger, 1911) - Wendessi tree frog
- Amnihyla macki (Richards, 2001)
- Amnihyla megalops (Richards and Iskandar, 2006)
- Amnihyla micromembrana (Tyler, 1963) - Nodugl tree frog
- Amnihyla modica (Tyler, 1968) - Oruge tree frog
- Amnihyla napaea (Tyler, 1968) - Snow Mountains tree frog
- Amnihyla oenicolen (Menzies and Zweifel, 1974) - Trauna River tree frog
- Amnihyla pratti (Boulenger, 1911)
- Amnihyla rara (Günther and Richards, 2005)
- Amnihyla rivicola (Günther and Richards, 2005)
- Amnihyla scabra (Günther and Richards, 2005)
- Amnihyla skeliphros (Oliver, McDonald, Dahl, Nagombi, and Richards, 2024)
- Amnihyla spartacus (Richards and Oliver, 2006)
- Amnihyla spinifera (Tyler, 1968)
- Amnihyla stellarum (Richards, Johnston, and Oliver, 2025)
- Amnihyla wollastoni (Boulenger, 1914) - Highland tree frog
References
[edit]- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2026). "Amnihyla Richards, Mahony, and Donnellan, 2025". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.2. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2026-04-06.
- 1 2 Donnellan, Stephen C.; Mahony, Michael J.; Esquerré, Damien; Brennan, Ian G.; Price, Luke C.; Lemmon, Alan; Moriarty Lemmon, Emily; Günther, Rainer; Monis, Paul; Bertozzi, Terry; Keogh, J. Scott; Shea, Glenn M.; Richards, Stephen J. (2025-06-19). "Phylogenomics informs a generic revision of the Australo-Paupuan treefrogs (Anura: Pelodryadidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204 (2). Oxford Academic: 1–80. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf015. Retrieved 2026-04-01.