Oreophryne loriae (Boulenger, 1898)

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

Sphenophryne loriae Boulenger, 1898, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 18: 707. Syntypes: MSNG (numerous specimens) and BMNH 1897.12.10.141–142 (now renumbered 1947.2.12.41-42), according to museum records and Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 170; one specimen in FMNH considered a 'cotype' (presumably a syntype in this context) by Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 59. Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 173, 176 also reidentified some MSNG syntypes to Cophixalus variegatus and Cophixalus ornatus; MSNG 29124 designated lectotype by Capocaccia, 1957, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 69: 220. Type locality: "Moroka", Central Province, Papua New Guinea.

Oreophryne loriaeVan Kampen, 1919, Bijdr. Dierkd., 21: 54; Menzies, 1976, Handb. Common New Guinea Frogs: 62.

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

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known with confidence only in the region of the type locality (Moroka, Central Province, Papua New Guinea). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Sphenophryne biroi by Menzies, 1976, Handb. Common New Guinea Frogs: 62, where it had been placed by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 169. See comment by Zweifel, Menzies, and Price, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3415: 2. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 211–212, provided a brief account. See account by Kraus, 2016, Zootaxa, 4195: 7–14. who revised the species and restricted the range. 

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