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Nyctimystes obsoletus (Lönnberg, 1900)
Hyla obsoleta Lönnberg, 1900, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 6: 580. Holotype: ZIUU (no number), by original designation. Type locality: "Simbang", Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
Nyctimystes obsoleta — Tyler, 1965, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 145: 92.
Nyctimystes obsoletus — Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 108; Kraus, 2013, Mem. Queensland Mus., 56 : 581-587, by implication.
Litoria obsoleta — 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.
English Names
Simbang Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).
Distribution
Several sites on the eastern end of the Huon Peninsula at low to moderate elevations (Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea).
Comment
For discussion and redescription of the type see Tyler, 1965, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 145: 92-94. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 164, provided a brief account. Menzies, 2014, Alytes, 30: 42-68, discussed this species and placed it in his Nyctimystes cheesmani group.
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