Cornufer papuensis (Meyer, 1875)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ceratobatrachidae > Subfamily: Ceratobatrachinae > Genus: Cornufer > Species: Cornufer papuensis

Platymantis corrugata var. papuensis Meyer, 1875 "1874", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874: 139. Type(s): Not stated, presumably MTD and destroyed in WWII. Type locality: "Mysore" (= Biak), Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia.

Cornufer corrugatus rubristriatus Barbour, 1908, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 21: 190. Syntypes: MCZ 2441 (2 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Roon Island, Geelvink Bay, Dutch New Guinea", Papua, Indonesia. Synonymy by Zweifel, 1969, Am. Mus. Novit., 2374: 7.

Cornufer moszkowskii Vogt, 1912, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1912: 358. Holotype: ZMB. Type locality: "Innere von Halländisch-Neu=Guinea gesammelt worden, und zwar zwischen 137° 50′ bis 138° 50′ östl. Länge und 1° 45′—3° 50′ südl. Breite". Treated as Rana (Platymantis) moszkowskii by Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 188, who considered it possibly identical with Platymantis boulengeri or Platymantis corrugatus (as "Rana rugata" (?)). Synonymy with Platymantis corrugatus papuensis by Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 308. Recognized as distinct by Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2. Synonymy by Zweifel, 1969, Am. Mus. Novit., 2374: 7.

Rana (Platymantis) rugata var. rubristriata — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 191.

Rana (Platymantis) moszkowskii — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 188.

Cornufer rugata rubristriatus — Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 244.

Cornufer papuensis — Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 355.

Cornufer rubristriatus — Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 355.

Cornufer papuensis papuensis — Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2.

Platymantis papuensis — Zweifel, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 120. By reference to Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2-3; Brown and Tyler, 1968, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 81: 69-86.

Platymantis rubristriatus — Zweifel, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 120. By reference to Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2-3.

Platymantis papuensis papuensis — Menzies, 1982, Brit. J. Herpetol., 6: 237.

Platymantis papuensis occidentalis Menzies, 1982, Brit. J. Herpetol., 6: 237. Holotype: UP 5258, by original designation; this specimen now MCZ Amph. 2470, according to Iskandar and Mumpuni, 2003 "2002", Hamadryad, 27: 127. Type locality: "in secondary forest near Piliana, south Seram (3° 15′ S, 129° 34′ E [),] Indonesia, altitude approximately 700 m." Shea and Kraus, 2007, Zootaxa, 1514: 37-60, commented on types.

Cornufer (Aenigmanura) papuensis — Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 174: 153. 

Common Names

Papua Wrinkled Ground Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 105).

Distribution

New Guinea (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) and surrounding islands, including the d'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand groups, also Sula and Seram, New Britain and New Ireland, 0-1200 m elevation; Bismarck Archipelago.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea

Comment

See account by Zweifel, 1960, Am. Mus. Novit., 2023: 19–22, and Zweifel, 1969, Am. Mus. Novit., 2374: 7–12. Menzies, 1982, Brit. J. Herpetol., 6: 236–240, discussed subspecific variation. Bossuyt, Brown, Hillis, Cannatella, and Milinkovitch, 2006, Syst. Biol., 55: 579–594, suggested that Platymantis papuensis (their sole exmplar of the Platymantis papuensis group) is the sister taxon of Ceratobatrachus. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 87–88, provided a brief account.

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