Litoria spaldingi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Litoria spaldingi (Hosmer, 1964)

Holotype: WAM R 23886 (formerly AMNH 67835), adult ♀, collected by William Hosmer on 23 September 1960.
Type locality: “Elizabeth River, 50 miles south of Darwin, Northern Territory”, Australia.

Hosmer, W. 1964. A new frog of the genus Hyla, from Northern Territory, Australia. American Museum Novitates 2182: 1–7.
Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series 1: 1–61. Reference page.

Donnellan, S.C., Catalano, S.R., Pederson, S., Mitchell, K.J., Suhendran, A., Price, L.C., Doughty, P. & Richards, S.J. 2021. Revision of the Litoria watjulumensis (Anura: Pelodryadidae) group from the Australian monsoonal tropics, including the resurrection of L. spaldingi. Zootaxa 4933(2): 211–240. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.2.3 Reference page.

IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2022. IUCN: Litoria spaldingi (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T197794385A197794444. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T197794385A197794444.en. Accessed on 02 September 2025.