Litoria graminea

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Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AMPHIBIA	ANURA	HYLIDAE

Scientific Name:	Litoria graminea
Species Authority:	(Boulenger, 1905)
Taxonomic Notes:	Richards and Oliver (2006) separated Litoria dux and L. sauroni from this species. The name Litoria graminea has been applied quite widely to canopy-dwelling treefrogs in New Guinea, but in some cases these refer to species that have not yet been described.

Red List Category & Criteria:	Data Deficient ver 3.1
Year Published:	2004
Assessor/s:	Stephen Richards, Allen Allison
Reviewer/s:	Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Listed as Data Deficient in view of continuing uncertainties as to its extent of occurrence, status and ecological requirements.

Range Description:	The type locality of this species is in northern Papua New Guinea, but the exact location is not known. Otherwise the species is known with certainty only from Ivimka Camp, at 100m asl in the Lakekamu Basin, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea (Richards and Oliver, 2006). Records from Darai Plateau, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, and from Dark End Lumber, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea refer to Litoria sauroni, whereas those from Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea refer to L. dux, and those from the northwestern coastal mountains of Papua New Guinea refer to L. huntorum. Records from the Vogelkop Peninsula in Papua, Indonesia, could refer to one of these species, but most likely represent an undescribed species (S. Richards, pers. comm.). However, Litoria graminea almost certainly occurs more widely in eastern Papua New Guinea than is currently known.
Countries:	Native: Papua New Guinea (Papua New Guinea (main island group))
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Population:	Although few specimens of this canopy-dwelling species exist in collections, it is probably abundant where it occurs, based on call records. It is hard to find, and so it has probably been under-sampled.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology:	This is an arboreal species, living entirely in the canopy of lowland and foothill rainforest. It needs high, closed-canopy, forest to survive, and is not found in degraded habitats. Its breeding requirements are unknown, though it possibly lays eggs in tree holes, and presumably breeds by larval development.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	There is no information on current threats to this species, but it probably requires intact rainforest and so would suffer from forest clearance.

Major Threat(s):

There is no information on current threats to this species, but it probably requires intact rainforest and so would suffer from forest clearance.

Conservation Actions:	It is not known from any protected areas. Surveys are needed to determine its distribution, ecological requirements and conservation needs.

Conservation Actions:

It is not known from any protected areas. Surveys are needed to determine its distribution, ecological requirements and conservation needs.

Citation:	Stephen Richards, Allen Allison 2004. Litoria graminea. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2013.
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