Oreophryne ezra Kraus and Allison, 2009

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Oreophryne > Species: Oreophryne ezra

Oreophryne ezra Kraus and Allison, 2009, Copeia, 2009: 691. Holotype: BPBM 20468, by original designation. Type locality: "Papua New Guinea, Milne Bay Province, Sudest Island, W slope Mt. Rio, 11.5054347°S, 153.429945°E, 630–730 m".

Asterophrys ezra — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 521, by implication. 

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the upper elevations of Mount Rio, 630–800 m, Sudest Island, Louisiade Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

 Bulbert, White, Saporito, and Kraus, 2017 "2018", Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 123: 12–20, reported on the ontogeny of color change from conspicuousness to crypsis. 

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