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Cornufer punctatus (Peters and Doria, 1878)
Platymantis punctata Peters and Doria, 1878, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 13: 420. Holotype: MSNG 29738, according to Capocaccia, 1957, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 69: 215. Type locality: "Hatam", Arfak Mountains, Vogelkop Peninsula, Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia. Menzies, 1992, Sci. New Guinea, 18: 121, noted that "Hattam" is not a locality, but the name of the people inhabiting the northern Arfak Mountains.
Cornufer punctatus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 110; Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2.
Cornufer beauforti Van Kampen, 1913, Bijdr. Dierkd., 19: 91. Synytpes: Originally 9 specimens, including ZMA 5155-56 (Waigeu, Papua, Indonesia), ZMA 5756-57 (Bajon, Waigeu, Papua, Indonesia), other syntypes in BMNH, FMNH (according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 46), MCZ (MCZ 10774 according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 243), NHMB, and ZSM (according to Van Tuijl, 1995, Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amsterdam, 14: 127) and ZSM 268/1975 according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 185. Type locality: "Waigeu: Bajou, 2 Ex.; Umgebung der Majalibit-Bai, 9 Ex.". Synonymy by Zweifel, 1969, Am. Mus. Novit., 2374: 12.
Platymantis beauforti — Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 373; Zweifel, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 120 (by reference to Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2-3).
Platymantis punctata — Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 373; Zweifel, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 120 (by reference to Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2-3).
Rana (Platymantis) beauforti — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 189.
Rana (Platymantis) punctata — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 192.
Cornufer beauforti — Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2-3.
Platymantis punctata — Zweifel, 1969, Am. Mus. Novit., 2374: 12; Günther, 1999, Mitt. Mus. Naturkd. Berlin, Zool., 75: 327-328; by implication. Unjustified emendation according to Kraus and Allison, 2007, Zootaxa, 1485: 29-30.
Cornufer punctatus — Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 174: 140.
Common Names
Dotted Wrinkled Ground Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 105).
Distribution
Batanta and Waigeu Islands and the adjacent mainland in the Arfak and Wondiwoi Mountains, New Guinea (Papua, Indonesia).
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region
Endemic: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region
Comment
See account by Zweifel, 1969, Am. Mus. Novit., 2374: 12-16. Günther, 2003, Faun. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd., Dresden, 24: 215, discussed the range and provided new records. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 88, provided a brief account. Portik, Streicher, and Wiens, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 188 (107907): 25, placed this species phylogenetically, as Platymantis punctatus, within Cornufer, but without taking any taxonomic action and apparently without regard to the earlier paper by Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 174: 140, where the same conclusion had been reached. Oliver, Davie-Rieck, Ramdani, Dashper, Kusuma, Lee, Rittmeyer, Clancy, Hamidy, Thompson, Fouquet, Ferreira, and Richards, 2025, Pacific Conserv. Biol., 31(PC24063): 1–12, as part of a larger discussion of the role of citizen science in documenting species ranges in Melanesia noted that iNaturalist observations provided records filling in blanks on the Vogelkop Peninsula, Papua, Indonesia.
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