Everett's tree frog

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Everett's tree frog
EVERETT’S TIMOR TREEFROG (female) Litoria everetti Meleotegi River, Ermera District, Timor-Leste (USNM 578928).jpg

Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Litoria
Species:
L. everetti
Binomial name
Litoria everetti
(Boulenger, 1897)

Everett's tree frog or the Timor tree frog (Litoria everetti) is a species of frog in the family Pelodryadidae. The scientific name commemorates the British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett.

Distribution and habitat[]

It is found on the Indonesian islands of on Alor, Sumba, Sawu, and in both Indonesian West Timor and independent Timor-Leste. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.

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