Sandyrana
| Sandyrana | |
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| White-lipped tree frog (Sandyrana infrafrenata) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae |
| Genus: | Sandyrana Wells and Wellington, 1985 |
| Species | |
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Sandyrana is a genus of arboreal frogs in the family Pelodryadidae.[1] These frogs are native to north-eastern Australia, New Guinea and its surrounding islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Archipelago and eastern Indonesia (with the white-lipped tree frog introduced into Java. Species in the genus were previously included within Nyctimystes the wastebasket genus Litoria, but were placed into the resurrected genus Sandyrana after a comprehensive phylogenetic study in 2025.[2]
Species within Sandyrana range from medium-sized to very large: the white-lipped tree frog is often considered the largest tree frog in Australia.
The genus is named after Sandy Ingleby of Sydney and the Latin for frog (rana).[2]
Species
[edit]Sandyrana contains 14 species:
| Common name | Binomial name |
|---|---|
| Azure-thighed treefrog | Sandyrana azuroscelis (Günther, Richards, Hamidy, Trilaksono, Sulaeman, and Oliver, 2023) |
| Sandyrana dux (Richards and Oliver, 2006) | |
| Northern New Guinea Treefrog | Sandyrana graminea (Boulenger, 1905) |
| Sandyrana hunti (Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006) | |
| White-lipped tree frog | Sandyrana infrafrenata (Günther, 1867) |
| Lubis's tree frog | Sandyrana lubisi (Oliver, Günther, Tjaturadi, and Richards, 2021) |
| Multi-coloured tree frog | Sandyrana multicolor (Günther, 2004) |
| Sandyrana nullicedens (Kraus, 2018) | |
| Sandyrana pallidofemora (Kraus, 2018) | |
| Parachuting frog | Sandyrana pterodactyla (Oliver, Richards, and Donnellan, 2019) |
| Sandyrana purpureolata (Oliver, Richards, Tjaturadi, and Iskandar, 2007) | |
| Sabang tree frog | Sandyrana sanguinolenta (Van Kampen, 1909) |
| Sandyrana sauroni (Richards and Oliver, 2006) | |
| Sandyrana tenuigranulata (Boettger, 1895) |
References
[edit]- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2026). "Sandyrana Wells and Wellington, 1985". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.2. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2026-04-04.
- 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.