Eremnoculus Mahony, Richards & Donnellan 2025, gen. nov.
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
Eremnoculus Mahony, Richards & Donnellan, gen. nov.
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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.
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- Journal article: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf015 (DOI)
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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
References
- Gunther A. Descriptions of new species of lizards and of a tree-frog from north-eastern Queensland. Novitates Zoologicae 1897; 4: 403-6. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.21183