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Austrochaperina basipalmata (Van Kampen, 1906)
Chaperina basipalmata Van Kampen, 1906, Nova Guinea, 5: 168. Syntypes: ZMA 5875-76 (2 specimens—Timena River) ZMA (1 specimen—Tawarin; lost according to Van Tuijl, 1995, Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amsterdam, 14: 126), and RMNH (1 specimen), according to Van Tuijl, 1995, Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amsterdam, 14: 126; RMNH 4628-29 reported as syntypes by Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 35; BMNH 1928.2.10.3, considered a syntype in error by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 156, according to Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 39. Type locality: "Tawarin" and "Timena-Fluss", Papua, Indonesia (New Guinea).
Chaperina quatuorlobata Wandolleck, 1911 "1910", Abh. Ber. Zool. Anthropol. Ethnograph. Mus. Dresden, 13: 9. Syntypes: MTD (3 specimens), destroyed in WWII. Type locality: "Torricelligebirge" (= Torricelli Mountains), Papua New Guinea. Synonymy (with Austrochaperina macrorhyncha) by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 155; Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 421. Synonymy with Chaperina basipalmata by Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 15.
Sphenophryne basipalmata — Van Kampen, 1919, Bijdr. Dierkd., 21: 54; Nieden, 1926, Das Tierreich, 49: 46; Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 421.
Austrochaperina basipalmata — Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 14
Asterophrys basipalmata — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 465.
Common Names
None noted.
Distribution
Mountain ranges of the north coast of New Guinea from Tawarin River in Papua (Indonesia) to the Prince Alexander Mountains, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Austrochaperina macrorhyncha by Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 14, where it had been placed by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 155; and Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 421. Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364-368, provided a range extension and characterised the range. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 217, provided a brief account. Kraus, 2013, Herpetol. Rev., 44: 277, provided a record from the Prince Alexander Mountains, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
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