
Pengilleyia
Pengilleyia is a genus of medium-sized tree frogs in the family Pelodryadidae. These frogs are native to Australia, New Guinea and eastern Indonesia. Species in the genus were previously included within the wastebasket genus Litoria, but were separated into a resurrected genus in 2025. They are grey to brown frogs, often with a highly mottled surface and sometimes flecks of emerald green.
Most of the species in Pengilleyia were described by science in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, except Tyler's tree frog (P. tyleri), which was long confused with Peron's tree frog (P. peronii) until the different morphology and calls were described in 1979. In 2023, Roth's tree frog was split into an eastern and western species using genetic evidence.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 7 known species

Peron's Tree Frog
speciesPengilleyia peronii

Pengilleyia rothii
complexPengilleyia rothii

Tyler's Laughing Tree Frog
speciesPengilleyia tyleri

Horst's Tree Frog
speciesPengilleyia amboinensis

Darlington's Madang Tree Frog
speciesPengilleyia darlingtoni
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1633150.