Melvillihyla Richards, Donnellan & Mahony, 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 : -

Melvillihyla Richards, Donnellan & Mahony , gen. nov.

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ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:30C05CFB-255B-4889-A162-FEC1C99BAF73 Type species: Litoria andiirrmalin McDonald , 1997.

Content: One species— Melvillihyla andiirrmalin * ( McDonald, 1997) comb. nov.

Diagnosis: Melvillihyla can be diagnosed from Rhyaconastes by its large vs. medium size, ossified vs. cartilaginous intercalary structures, tadpole oral disc Type 1 vs. Type 3, overall tadpole morphology Type 5 vs. Type 6, and single vs. multiple notes per reproductive call. Refer to Tables 1 and 2.

Distribution and ecology: Terrestrial boulder dwelling frogs that breed in streams within rainforest in Cape Melville in north-eastern Australia.

Etymology: Named for Cape Melville, north Queensland which contains the species’ entire distribution. The gender, based on the frog generic name Hyla , is feminine.

Remarks: A monotypic genus with a distribution restricted to Cape Melville which has a unique combination of geology, rainforest and sclerophyll forest communities, and climate ( McDonald 1997).