Eremnoculus Mahony, Richards & Donnellan, 2025

Donnellan, Stephen C., Mahony, Michael J., Esquerré, Damien, Brennan, Ian G., Price, Luke C., Lemmon, Alan, Lemmon, Emily Moriarty, Günther, Rainer, Monis, Paul, Bertozzi, Terry, Keogh, J. Scott, Shea, Glenn M. & Richards, Stephen J., 2025, Phylogenomics informs a generic revision of the Australo-Papuan treefrogs (Anura: Pelodryadidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204 : -

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.