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Colleeneremia Wells and Wellington 1985

Authors/Creators

  • 1. South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia & School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia & Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
  • 2. School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, Newcastle, NSW 2308 Australia
  • 3. Environmental Futures Research Centre, School of Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2526, Australia
  • 4. Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom
  • 5. School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
  • 6. Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States & Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States
  • 7. Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States
  • 8. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Herpetologie, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
  • 9. South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia & School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
  • 10. Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia
  • 11. Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia & Sydney School of Veterinary Science, B 01, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
  • 12. South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia & Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia

Description

Colleeneremia Wells and Wellington, 1985: 4

(Fig. 12)

Type species: Hyla rubella Gray, 1842, by original designation.

Content: 12 species— Colleeneremia balatus * (Rowley, Mahony, Hines, Myers, Price, Shea & Donnellan, 2021) comb. nov., Colleeneremia capitula * (Tyler, 1968) comb. nov., Colleeneremia congenita * (Peters & Doria, 1878) comb. nov., Colleeneremia dentata * (Keferstein, 1868) comb. nov., Colleeneremia electrica * (Ingram & Corben, 1990) comb. nov., Colleeneremia pygmaea * (Meyer, 1874) comb. nov., Colleeneremia quadrilineata (Tyler & Parker, 1974) comb. nov., Colleeneremia quiritatus * (Rowley, Mahony, Hines, Myers, Price, Shea & Donnellan, 2021) comb. nov., Colleeneremia rubella * (Gray, 1842), Colleeneremia rueppelli * (Boettger, 1895) comb. nov., Colleeneremia umbonata (Tyler & Davies, 1983) comb. nov., Colleeneremia wisselensis (Tyler, 1968a) comb. nov.

Diagnosis: Colleeneremia can be diagnosed from the sister taxon Pengilleyia by small to medium vs. large size and calls with a densely pulsatile structure in which the notes are not fully amplitude modulated compared with note repetition in which the notes are fully amplitude modulated. Refer to Tables 1 and 2.

Distribution and ecology: Arboreal frogs that breed in ephemeral ponds and are found in forests, woodlands, arid shrublands, and modified landscapes in the northern two-thirds of Australia, New Guinea and surrounding islands, and the province of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

Etymology: According to Wells and Wellington (1985), named for Miss Colleen Montgomery of Sydney in appreciation for her interest in wildlife conservation. The gender is feminine.

Remarks: Colleeneremia is the equivalent of the Litoria rubella and L. quadrilineata Groups ofTyler and Davies (1978). Three species lacking genetic data are included in Colleeneremia: C. quadrilineata, C. umbonata, and C. wisselensis. Tyler and Davies (1978) included L. wisselensis in the Litoria rubella Group (= Colleeneremia) and L. quadrilineata in a separate, monotypic group. Tyler and Davies (1983) subsequently placed L. umbonata and L. wisselensis in a separate group. However, based on their very short legs Menzies (2006) included all three species in the Litoria rubella ‘complex’ and we follow this arrangement pending availability of genetic data.

Notes

Published as part of Donnellan, Stephen C., Mahony, Michael J., Esquerré, Damien, Brennan, Ian G., Price, Luke C., Lemmon, Alan, Lemmon, Emily Moriarty, Günther, Rainer, Monis, Paul, Bertozzi, Terry, Keogh, J. Scott, Shea, Glenn M. & Richards, Stephen J., 2025, Phylogenomics informs a generic revision of the Australo-Papuan treefrogs (Anura: Pelodryadidae) in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf015

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Wells and Wellington
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Pelodryadidae
Genus
Colleeneremia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Colleeneremia and, 1985 sec. Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea & Richards, 2025

References

  • Wells R, Wellington CR. A synopsis of the Amphibia and Reptilia and New Zealand. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1985; 1: 62-4.
  • Peters W, Doria G. Catalogo dei rettili e dei batraci raccolti da O. Beccari, L. M. D'Albertis e A. A. Bruijn nella sotto-regione Austro- Malese. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 1878; 13: 323-450.
  • Keferstein W. Ueber die Batrachier Australiens. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 1868; 34: 253-90. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.20476
  • Ingram GJ, Corben CJ. Litoria electrica, a new treefrog from western Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 1990; 28: 475-8.
  • Tyler MJ, Parker F. New species of hylid and leptodactylid frogs from southern New Guinea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 1974; 98: 71-7.
  • Boettger O. Liste der Reptilien und Batrachier der Insel Halmaheira nach den Sammlungen Prof. Dr. Kukenthal's. Zoologischer Anzeiger 1895; 18: 129-40.
  • Tyler MJ, Davies M. A new species of Litoria (Anura, Hylidae) from Irian Jaya, New Guinea. Copeia 1983; 1983: 803-8. https://doi.org/10.2307/1444349
  • Tyler MJ. Papuan hylid frogs of the genus Hyla. Zoologische Verhandelingen 1968 a; 96: 1-203.
  • Menzies JI. Frogs of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Sofia: Pensoft, 2006.