Cophixalus monticola Richards, Dennis, Trenerry, and Werren, 1994

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Cophixalus > Species: Cophixalus monticola

Cophixalus monticola Richards, Dennis, Trenerry, and Werren, 1994, Mem. Queensland Mus., 37: 307. Holotype: QM J58727, by original designation. Type locality: "Carbine Tableland, 16° 30′ 38″ S, 145° 16′ 18″ E, altitude 1180 m", northern Queensland, Australia. Junior secondary homonym of Sphenophryne monticola Boulenger, 1897, when both in Asterophrys

Asterophrys monticola — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 418. 

English Names

Montane Toadlet (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 106).

Distribution

Known only from elevations above 1100 m on the Carbine Tableland, northwest of Cairns, northern Queensland, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 448. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 106–107. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 10, provided a polygon distribution map.

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