Published August 30, 2025 | Version v1
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Eremnoculus Mahony, Richards & Donnellan 2025, gen. nov.

  • 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

Eremnoculus Mahony, Richards & Donnellan, gen. nov.

(Fig. 16)

ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3FD4893D-79A5- 4DE5-B308-E9C6EB520849 Type species: Hyla dayi Günther, 1897.

Content: One species— Eremnoculus dayi * (Günther, 1897) comb. nov.

Diagnosis: Eremnoculus can be diagnosed from its sister lineage, Mosleyia, by presence of a vocal sac, presence of a well-developed palpebral reticulum, granular nuptial pads, and the presence of the AMES. Refer toTables 1 and 2.

Distribution and ecology: Australian Wet Tropics in north-eastern Queensland. Semi-aquatic frogs that breed in streams in tropical rainforest. Large unpigmented eggs laid under or glued to rocks; tadpoles with large, ventrally located suctorial oral discs.

Etymology: From the Greek ἐΡεμνός (eremnos, = black) and Latin oculus (eye), referring to large dark eye in the species. The gender of oculus is masculine.

Remarks: A monotypic lineage on a long branch associated with the torrent frogs, Mosleyia, also from the Australian Wet Tropics in north-eastern Queensland.

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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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LSID
Scientific name authorship
Mahony, Richards & Donnellan
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Pelodryadidae
Genus
Eremnoculus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Eremnoculus Donnellan, Mahony & Richards, 2025

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