THE REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS OF AUSTRALIA - AMPHIBIANS

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Selection of Australian Frogs

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REPTILES OF THE WORLD SPECIES LISTS

 

DESERT TREE FROGS
(Red Tree Frogs)
Colleeneremia (GENUS)
(Were Litoria rubella)

Grow to approximately 43mm (1.7")

Litoria rubella (Split into 3 species in 2025) new species are Colleeneremia pyrina (was Litoria) and Colleeneremia larisonans (was Litoria)

COMMON NAMES
(TENTATIVE NAMES ONLY)
SCIENTIFIC NAME
Distribution
Western Desert Tree Frog Colleeneremia larisonans Restricted to the western arid zone of Western Australia. The northern extent of its distribution occurs along the southern boundary of the Great Sandy Desert. It occurs to the west of the Gibson and Great Victorian Deserts, and north of approximately latitude 29⁰S.
Eastern Desert Tree Frog
Colleeneremia pyrina Restricted to mesic eastern Australia from northern Queensland south to extreme northeastern New South Wales; the range boundary forms along the western slopes the Great Dividing Range to the east of the Carpentarian Gap, although the exact northern and western extents are uncertain. 
Australasian Red Tree Frog Colleeneremia rubella Kimberley region of Western Australia east and south through the Northern Territory to northern South Australia and western and central New South Wales, Australia; southern Papua New Guinea and adjacent southeastern Papua, Indonesia.


Red Tree Frog (Colleeneremia rubella) photographed in the "Top End" Northern Territory
Red Tree Frog (Colleeneremia rubella) photographed in the "Top End" Northern Territory


Ruddy Tree Frog (Colleeneremia pyrina) photographed living in a bathroom of a house" Bringalilly, Qld
Ruddy Tree Frog (Colleeneremia pyrina) photographed living in a bathroom of a house" Bringalilly, Qld


Desert Tree Frog (Colleeneremia rubella) photographed at Parachilna, South Australia
Desert Tree Frog (Colleeneremia rubella) photographed at Parachilna, South Australia


Desert Tree Frog (Litoria rubella) photographed at Desert Tree Frog (Colleeneremia rubella) photographed at Parachilna, South AustraliaSouth Australia
Desert Tree Frog (Colleeneremia rubella) photographed at Parachilna, South Australia

LINKS OF INTEREST

Colleeneremia rubella (Gray, 1842)
American Museum of Natural History.

Colleeneremia pyrina (Purser, Doughty, Rowley, Böhme, Donnellan, Anstis, Mitchell, Shea, Amey, Mitchell, and Catullo, 2025)
American Museum of Natural History.

Colleeneremia larisonans (Purser, Doughty, Rowley, Böhme, Donnellan, Anstis, Mitchell, Shea, Amey, Mitchell, and Catullo, 2025)
American Museum of Natural History.

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