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Blue Mountains tree frog

Species of amphibian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 8, 2026
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The Blue Mountains tree frog also called the variegated river tree frog is a species of tree frog in the family Pelodryadidae. It is endemic to southeastern Australia and is found in eastern Victoria and in southeastern New South Wales. The Jenolan Caves tree frog, a population formerly separated as Litoria jenolanensis, is nowadays included in this species.

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“Blue Mountains tree frog” enters the record as species of amphibian. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Blue, Mountains and tree can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Blue Mountains tree frog” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.