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Dryopsophus

Dryopsophus is a genus of stream-dwelling frogs in the family Pelodryadidae. These frogs are native to the Great Dividing Range in eastern Australia. Species in the genus were previously included within the wastebasket genus Litoria, but were separated into a new genus in 2025. They are small-to-medium sized frogs, and most species are predominantly green in colour, but some species can also be brown.

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Dryopsophus
Mountain stream frog in Nowendoc, New South Wales, Australia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Dryopsophus
Mahony, Donnellan & Richards, 2025
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Dryopsophus is a genus of stream-dwelling frogs in the family Pelodryadidae. These frogs are native to the Great Dividing Range in eastern Australia. Species in the genus were previously included within the wastebasket genus Litoria, but were separated into a new genus in 2025.1 They are small-to-medium sized frogs, and most species are predominantly green in colour, but some species can also be brown.

Species

Dryopsophus contains ten species, all native to the creeks of eastern Australia:

Common name Binomial name
Mountain stream tree frog Dryopsophus barringtonensis (Copland, 1957)
Blue Mountains tree frog Dryopsophus citropa (Péron, 1807)
Davies' tree frog Dryopsophus daviesae (Mahony, Knowles, Foster, and Donnellan, 2001)
Kroombit tree frog Dryopsophus kroombitensis (Hoskin, Hines, Meyer, Clarke, and Cunningham, 2013)
Southern leaf green tree frog Dryopsophus nudidigitus (Copland, 1963)
Pearson's green tree frog Dryopsophus pearsonianus (Copland, 1961)
Leaf green tree frog Dryopsophus phyllochrous (Günther, 1863)
Peppered tree frog Dryopsophus piperatus (Tyler and Davies, 1985)
Spencer's river tree frog Dryopsophus spenceri (Dubois, 1984)
New England tree frog Dryopsophus subglandulosus (Tyler and Anstis, 1983)
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References

  1. Donnellan, Stephen C.; Mahony, Michael J.; Esquerré, Damien; Brennan, Ian G.; Price, Luke C.; Lemmon, Alan; Moriarty Lemmon, Emily; Günther, Rainer; Monis, Paul; Bertozzi, Terry; Keogh, J. Scott; Shea, Glenn M.; Richards, Stephen J. (2025-06-19). "Phylogenomics informs a generic revision of the Australo-Paupuan treefrogs (Anura: Pelodryadidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204 (2). Oxford Academic: 1–80. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf015. Retrieved 2026-04-01.