Choerophryne darlingtoni (Loveridge, 1948)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Choerophryne > Species: Choerophryne darlingtoni

Cophixalus biroi darlingtoni Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 423. Holotype: MCZ 25930, by original designation. Type locality: "Toromanbanau, 7,500 feet, Bismarck Range, Madang Division [Chimbu Province], Australian New Guinea [Papua New Guinea]".

Cophixalus darlingtoniZweifel, 1956, Am. Mus. Novit., 1766: 44.

Albericus darlingtoniBurton and Zweifel, 1995, Am. Mus. Novit., 3129: 1.

Choerophryne darlingtoni — Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 139. 

Asterophrys darlingtoni — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 477, by implication. 

English Names

Darlington's Rainforest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88).

Distribution

Central mountain ranges of Papua New Guinea in Southern Highlands, Eastern Highlands, Chimbu, and Western Highlands provinces, generally about 2000 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

See account (as Cophixalus darlingtoni) by Zweifel, 1962, Am. Mus. Novit., 2087: 7-8. See also Menzies, 1999, Aust. J. Zool., 47: 327-360. Zweifel, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3419: 6, noted that this species is not reliably distinguishable from Albericus fafniri on the basis of morphology alone. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 175, provided a brief account. Kraus, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 246-248, provided a record from the Southern Highlands Province and commented on the range.

External links:

Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.