Cape Melville tree frog
| Cape Melville tree frog | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae |
| Genus: | Melvillihyla |
| Species: | M. andiirrmalin |
| Binomial name | |
| Melvillihyla andiirrmalin (MacDonald, 1997) | |
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The Cape Melville tree frog (Melvillihyla andiirrmalin) is a species of frog in the family Pelodryadidae.[2][3] It is endemic to Australia, and has been found only in Queensland, in Cape Melville National Park.[3] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers.[1]
It was first described by Keith McDonald in 1997 as Litoria andiirrmalin,[2][4][5] but was transferred to the genus Ranoidea, by Dubois and Frétey in 2016.[2][6] However, a systematic phylogenetic study of the family created the monotypic genus Melvillihyla for this species, as it diverged from its closest relatives in the genus Rhyaconastes approximately 14 million years ago.[7]
References
- 1 2 Hero, Jean-Marc; McDonald, Keith; Alford, Ross; Cunningham, Michael; Retallick, Richard (2004). "Litoria andiirrmalin". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004 e.T41028A10390496. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41028A10390496.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2026). "Chlorohyla auae (Menzies and Tyler, 2004)". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.2. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
- 1 2 "Australian Faunal Directory: Litoria andiirrmalin". biodiversity.org.au. Archived from the original on 2021-10-21. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
- ↑ Keith R. McDonald (1997). "A new stream-dwelling Litoria from the Melville Range, Queensland, Australia". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 42 (1): 307-309 [307]. ISSN 0079-8835. Wikidata Q109136101.
- ↑ Stanton, J. P. (James Peter); Borschmann, G.J. (1994), Peter Stanton interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project, p. 74
- ↑ A. Dubois; T. Frétey (2016). "A new nomen for a subfamily of frogs (Amphibia, Anura)". Dumerilia. 6: 21. ISSN 1256-7779. Wikidata Q109134389.
- ↑ 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.