Sandyrana
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Sandyrana is a genus of arboreal frogs in the family Pelodryadidae. 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.
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).
Species
Sandyrana contains 14 species:
| Common name | Binomial name |
|---|---|
| Azure-thighed treefrog | Sandyrana azuroscelis (Günther, Richards, Hamidy, Trilaksono, Sulaeman, and Oliver, 2023) |
| Sandyrana dux (Richards and Oliver, 2006) | |
| Northern New Guinea Treefrog | Sandyrana graminea (Boulenger, 1905) |
| Sandyrana hunti (Richards, Oliver, Dahl, and Tjaturadi, 2006) | |
| White-lipped tree frog | Sandyrana infrafrenata (Günther, 1867) |
| Lubis's tree frog | Sandyrana lubisi (Oliver, Günther, Tjaturadi, and Richards, 2021) |
| Multi-coloured tree frog | Sandyrana multicolor (Günther, 2004) |
| Sandyrana nullicedens (Kraus, 2018) | |
| Sandyrana pallidofemora (Kraus, 2018) | |
| Parachuting frog | Sandyrana pterodactyla (Oliver, Richards, and Donnellan, 2019) |
| Sandyrana purpureolata (Oliver, Richards, Tjaturadi, and Iskandar, 2007) | |
| Sabang tree frog | Sandyrana sanguinolenta (Van Kampen, 1909) |
| Sandyrana sauroni (Richards and Oliver, 2006) | |
| Sandyrana tenuigranulata (Boettger, 1895) |