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Cophixalus zweifeli Davies and McDonald, 1998
Cophixalus zweifeli Davies and McDonald, 1998, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 122: 160. Holotype: QM J64888, by original designation. Type locality: "Cape Melville National Park, 14° 15′ 3″ S, 144° 27′ 40″ E, altitude 60-80 m.", Queensland, Australia.
Asterophrys zweifeli — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 479, by implication.
Common Names
Cape Melville Nursery-Frog (Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 214).
Zweifel's Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 108; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 214).
Distribution
Known only from the boulder fields in Cape Melville National Park, Queensland, Australia.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Australia
Endemic: Australia
Comment
Most closely related to Cophixalus infacetus according to the original publication. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 108-109. See Hoskin, 2013, Zootaxa, 3722: 61–72, for morphology and life history information. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 214, provided a brief account, photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 11, provided a polygon distribution map.
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