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Cornufer acrochordus Brown, 1965
Cornufer acrochordus Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 10. Holotype: MCZ 44264, by original designation. Type locality: "Aresi Mountain area, south of Kunua between 2000-4000 feet, Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands".
Platymantis acrochordus — Zweifel, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 120, by reference to Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2-3.
Platymantis acrochorda — Günther, 1999, Mitt. Mus. Naturkd. Berlin, Zool., 75: 327-328, by implication. Incorrect gender according to Kraus and Allison, 2007, Zootaxa, 1485: 29-30.
Cornufer acrochrodus — Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 174: 140.
Common Names
Bougainville Wrinkled Ground Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 104).
Distribution
Bougainville (Papua New Guinea), Choiseul, and Santa Isabel Islands, Solomon Islands.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
Comment
Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 97, provided a brief account as did Pikacha, Morrison, and Richards, 2008, Frogs Solomon Islands: 446-47.
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