A new species of torrent-breeding treefrog (Pelodryadidae: Litoria) from the mountains of Papua, Indonesia, with new records and observations of Litoria dorsivena (Tyler, 1968)

The mountains of New Guinea are home to species-rich but poorly understood communities stream or torrent-breeding pelodryadid treefrogs. Here we describe a new species moderately sized Litoria from the Papua Province, Indonesia. is most similar dorsivena differs that in aspects body size, skin texture and especially shape snout. Based on recent collections, also present data distribution colour life L. . Both show marked sexual size dimorphism when compared other treefrogs, pattern may vary between males females. treefrogs remain known and, given declines ecologically pelodryadids Australia, should be priority group for taxonomic research population monitoring.