Cophixalus pusillus Günther and Richards, 2021

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

Cophixalus pusillus Günther and Richards, 2021, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 134: 347. Holotype: SAMA R71752, by original designation. Type locality: "unnamed mountain range, Hela Province, Papua New Guinea (6.2469°S, 143.12538°E; 1760 m a.s.l.) . . . . The type locality is an unnamed ridge immediately to the north of the Agogo Range".urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:58B12332-EA9A-44D8-915DB849246E348B

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known with certainty only from a single locality (6.2469°S, 143.12538°E; 1760 m elevation) on an unnamed ridge immediately to the north of the Agogo Range at an altitude of 1760 m in the mountains of Hela Province, Papua New Guinea. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

Comparative external morphology and advertisement call described in the original publication. 

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