Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William St, Sydney 2010, Australia. Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia..
School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, 2308, Australia. .
Zootaxa. 2021 Nov 22;5071(1):1-41. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.1.1.
The bleating tree frog (Litoria dentata) is one of the more prominent pelodryadid frogs of eastern Australia by virtue of its extremely loud, piercing, male advertisement call. A member of the Litoria rubella species group, L. dentata has a broad latitudinal distribution and is widespread from coastal and subcoastal lowlands through to montane areas. A recent mitochondrial DNA analysis showed a deep phylogeographic break between populations of L. dentata on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Here we extended the mitochondrial survey with more geographically comprehensive sampling and tested the systematic implications of our findings with nuclear genome wide single-nucleotide polymorphism, morphological and male advertisement call datasets. While similar in appearance and in male advertisement call, our integrative analysis demonstrates the presence of three species which replace each other in a north-south series. We redescribe Litoria dentata, which is restricted to coastal north-eastern New South Wales, and formally describe Litoria balatus sp. nov., from south-eastern Queensland, and Litoria quiritatus sp. nov., from the mid-coast of New South Wales to north-eastern Victoria.
嘶声树蛙（Litoria dentata）是澳大利亚东部更为突出的 pelodryadid 蛙类之一，其雄性广告叫声极其响亮、刺耳。作为 Litoria rubella 物种群的一员，嘶声树蛙分布广泛，从沿海和近岸低地到山地地区均有分布。最近的线粒体 DNA 分析表明，新南威尔士州中北部海岸的嘶声树蛙种群之间存在深刻的地理分化。在这里，我们通过更全面的地理采样扩展了线粒体调查，并利用核基因组全单核苷酸多态性、形态学和雄性广告叫声数据集来检验我们发现的系统意义。尽管在外观和雄性广告叫声上相似，但我们的综合分析表明存在三个相互替代的物种，它们呈南北系列分布。我们重新描述了仅限于新南威尔士州东北部沿海地区的嘶声树蛙，并正式描述了来自昆士兰州东南部的新种巴氏树蛙（Litoria balatus）和来自新南威尔士州中海岸到维多利亚州东北部的新种奎里塔斯树蛙（Litoria quiritatus）。
