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Sphenophryne brevicrus (Van Kampen, 1913)
Oxydactyla brevicrus Van Kampen, 1913, Nova Guinea, 9: 465. Syntypes: ZMA 5714 (Hellwig Mts.), and ZMA 5715-16 (Wichmann Mts.) according to Van Tuijl, 1995, Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amsterdam, 14: 128 ZMA 5714 designated lectotype by Daan and Hillenius, 1966, Beaufortia, 13: 122. Type locality: "Hellwig-Gebireg, +/- 2500 m" = Hellwig Mountains, +/- 2500 m, and "Wichmann-Gebirge, +/- 3000 m" = Wichmann Mountains, +/- 3000 m, Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia; restricted to Hellwig Mountains by lectotype designation.
Sphenophryne brevicrus — Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 158; Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 422.
Oxydactyla brevicrus — Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 79.
Sphenophryne brevicrus — Rivera, Kraus, Allison, and Butler, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 112: 4, by implication of the synonymy of Oxydactylus with Sphenophryne.
Asterophrys brevicrus — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 547, by implication.
English Names
Hellwig Land Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 92).
Distribution
High elevations (2200-3000 m) in the central mountain ranges of Papua (Indonesia).
Comment
Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 80, noted that previous records for this species for Papua New Guinea are based on specimens of Oxydactyla coggeri, Oxydactyla alpestris, and Oxydactyla stenodactyla. See brief account (as Sphenophryne brevicrus) by Menzies, 1976, Handb. Common New Guinea Frogs: 54. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 229, provided a brief account.
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