Beck's tree frog

Beck's tree frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Litoria
Species:
L. becki
Binomial name
Litoria becki
(Loveridge, 1945)
Synonyms
  • Hyla becki Loveridge, 1945
  • Ranoidea becki (Loveridge, 1945)

Beck's tree frog (Litoria becki) is a species of frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.[2] Its natural habitats are tropical moist montane forests, grasslands and streams.[1] It was first described by the British biologist and herpetologist Arthur Loveridge in 1945 and is named in honour of the American ornithologist and explorer Rollo Beck who led the Whitney South Seas Expedition in the 1920s, collecting bird and other specimens from thousands of islands in the South Pacific.[3]

  1. ^ a b IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Litoria becki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T55710A67858721.
  2. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Litoria becki (Loveridge, 1945)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  3. ^ Fellers, Gary M. (2014). "Animal taxa named for Rollo H. Beck". Archives of Natural History. 41 (1): 113–123. doi:10.3366/anh.2014.0214.