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Nyctimystes daymani Zweifel, 1958
Nyctimystes daymani Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 8. Holotype: AMNH 57070, by original designation. Type locality: "north slope of Mt. Dayman, Territory of Papua, [Milne Bay Province, Papua] New Guinea, at an elevation of 700 meters (2300 feet)".
Litoria daymani — Frost, 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.
Nyctimystes daymani — Kraus, 2013, Mem. Queensland Mus., 56 : 581-587, by implication.
Common Names
Dayman Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).
Distribution
Known only from localities on the lower slopes of Mount Dayman, Milne Bay Province, possibly to Mafulu (280 km west of Mount Dayman), Papua New Guinea.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea
Endemic: Papua New Guinea
Comment
Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 161, provided a brief account and noted controversy in the identitification of frogs west of the Owen Stanley Range. Menzies, 2014, Alytes, 30: 42-68, discussed this species and placed it in his Nyctimystes cheesmani group.
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