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Austrochaperina parkeri Zweifel, 2000
Austrochaperina parkeri Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 49. Holotype: MCZ 89220, by original designation. Type locality: "Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, at 4 km north of Lae". Junior secondary homonym of Cophixalus variegata parkeri Loveridge, 1948, and Oreophryne parkeri Loveridge, 1955, when in Asterophrys.
Asterophrys parkeri — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 465.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Known from the type locality (4 km north of Lae) and 5.6 km northwest of the summit of Mount Shungol (35 km northeast of the type locality) in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea
Endemic: Papua New Guinea
Comment
Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364-368, provided a second locality for this species. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 222, provided a brief account.
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