Sandyrana
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| Sandyrana | |
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| White-lipped tree frog (Sandyrana infrafrenata) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae |
| Genus: | Sandyrana Wells and Wellington, 1985 |
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Sandyrana is a genus of arboreal frogs in the family Pelodryadidae.[1] These frogs are native to north-eastern Australia, New Guinea and its surrounding islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Archipelago and eastern Indonesia (with the white-lipped tree frog introduced into Java. Species in the genus were previously included within Nyctimystes the wastebasket genus Litoria, but were placed into the resurrected genus Sandyrana after a comprehensive phylogenetic study in 2025.[2]
Species within Sandyrana range from medium-sized to very large: the white-lipped tree frog is often considered the largest tree frog in Australia.
The genus is named after Sandy Ingleby of Sydney and the Latin for frog (rana).[2]