| Fiji Tree Frog | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Ranidae |
| Genus: | Platymantis |
| Species: | P. vitiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Platymantis vitiensis (Girard, 1853) |
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The Fiji Tree Frog (Platymantis vitiensis) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is one of two endemic frogs in Fiji, the other being the closely related Fiji Ground Frog (Platymantis vitianus). It is the only true frog to undergo direct development in the egg, without a larval stage.
The Fiji tree frog persists in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, pastureland, plantations , rural gardens, and secondary regrowth forest habitats, on the largest islands in the Fiji group: Taveuni, Vanua Levu and Viti Levu. It is threatened by habitat loss on these islands, particularly due to the increase in conversion of native forest to plantations.