Snow Mountains tree frog

Snow Mountains tree frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Litoria
Species: L. napaea
Binomial name
Litoria napaea
(Tyler, 1968)

The Snow Mountains tree frog (Litoria napaea) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family, endemic to West Papua, Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers.

Range

This species is known to populate the mountains of Papua, Indonesia, as well as two locations in the Wapoga River headwaters (where the species was found in 1998). One specimen was collected 40 km southeast of Nabire in Papua. It has been recorded between about 500 and 1,000 m above sea level.

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