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Cornufer solomonis Boulenger, 1884
Cornufer solomonis Boulenger, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1884: 212. Syntypes: BMNH 84.3.24.9-17 according to Brown, 1985, In Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 469. Type locality: "Shortland, Treasury. and Faro Islands", Solomon Islands.
Platymantis solomonis — Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 373; Brown, 1952, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 107: 53.
Rana (Platymantis) solomonis — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 191-192.
Cornufer solomonis — Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 3.
Platymantis solomonis — Zweifel, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 120, by reference to Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2-3.
Cornufer (Aenigmanura) solomonis — Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 174: 153.
English Names
Solomon Wrinkled Ground Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 105).
Distribution
Widespread at low elevations in the Solomon Islands, but apparently absent from Guadalcanal and San Cristobal Islands.
Comment
Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 99, provided a brief account, as did Pikacha, Morrison, and Richards, 2008, Frogs Solomon Islands: 51–53.
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