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Cornufer nexipus (Zweifel, 1975)
Platymantis nexipus Zweifel, 1975, Am. Mus. Novit., 2582: 4. Holotype: BPBM 1009, by original designation. Type locality: "St. Paul's, Baining Mountains, New Britain", Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea.
Cornufer (Aenigmanura) nexipus — Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 174: 153.
Common Names
Baining Wrinkled Ground Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 105).
Distribution
New Britain Island, 100 to 400 m elevation, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea
Endemic: Papua New Guinea
Comment
Brown, Richards, Sukumaran, and Foufopoulos, 2006, Zootaxa, 1334: 45–68, reported briefly on ten specimens from elsewhere on New Britain, and compared the species to Platymantis (=Cornufer) schmidti and Platymantis (=Cornufer) adiastola. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 95, provided a brief account. Brown, Foufopoulos, and Richards, 2006, Copeia, 2006: 674-695, provided a redescription of the species.
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