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Leiopelma archeyi Turbott, 1942
Leiopelma archeyi Turbott, 1942, Trans. Proc. R. Soc. New Zealand, 71: 248. Holotype: Auckland Mus. (=AIM) AMPH 2.1, by original designation. Type locality: "Tokatea, near Coromandel", Cape Colville Range, New Zealand.
Leioaspetos archeyi — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 62; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 413.
English Names
Coromandel New Zealand Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 70).
Archey's Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 76).
Distribution
Cape Colville Range, Coromandel Peninsula and 140 km to the east in the Whareorino Forest, northern King Country, North Island, New Zealand, 400-1000 m elevation.
Comment
See Bell, Daugherty, and Hitchmough, 1998, New Zealand J. Zool., 25: 139-146, for discussion of western population and access to literature. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 292. See van Winkel, Baling, and Hitchmough, 2019, Rept. Amph. New Zealand: 308–309, for account, photograph, and range map.
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