Nyctimystes cheesmani Tyler, 1964

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Nyctimystes > Species: Nyctimystes cheesmani

Nyctimystes montana Parker, 1936, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 17: 80. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.24.31 (formerly 1935.3.9.176) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 96. Type locality: "Mondo, Papua (5000 ft.)", Central Province, Papua New Guinea. Secondary homonym of Hyla montana Peters and Doria, 1878.

Nyctimystes cheesmani Tyler, 1964, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 27: 268. Replacement name for Nyctimystes montana Parker, 1936.

Nyctimystes cheesmanaeMenzies, 1976, Handb. Common New Guinea Frogs: 45. Unjustified emendation according to Dubois, 2007, Zootaxa, 1550: 67, and Opinion 2447 of the ICZN (Anonymous, 2020, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 77: 48–49). See comment.

Litoria cheesmanaeFrost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362. See comment. 

Nyctimystes cheesmani — Kraus, 2013, Mem. Queensland Mus., 56 : 581–587, by implication. 

English Names

Cheesman's Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).

Distribution

Montane Central Province, Papua New Guinea.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

For discussion see Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 21 (as Nyctimystes montana)Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 155–156, provided a brief account (as Nyctimystes cheesmanae) and suggested that more than one species may exist under this name. Brandon-Jones, Duckworth, Jenkins, Rylands, and Sarmiento, 2007, Zootaxa, 1541: 41–48, and Dubois, 2007, Zootaxa, 1550: 49–68, discussed the nomenclatural principles that prevent the name cheesmani from being emendable to cheesmanae. Kraus, 2012, Zootaxa, 3493: 1–26, redelimited the species and provided an account. Opinion 2447 of the ICZN (Anonymous, 2020, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 77: 48–49: 47–48) noted that the original spelling of the species name is to be maintained. 

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