Everett's tree frog

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.

Everett's tree frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pelodryadidae
Genus: Litoria
Species:
L. everetti
Binomial name
Litoria everetti
(Boulenger, 1897)

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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