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Platyplectrum platyceps (Parker, 1940)
Lechriodus platyceps Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 28. Holotype: BMNH 1876.7.18.6, by original designation; reregistered as 1947.2.18.63 according to museum records. Type locality: "Arfak, Dutch New Guinea", Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
Platyplectrum platyceps — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 201, by implication.
Common Names
Arfak Cannibal Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94).
Distribution
Mountains of western and central Papua (Indonesia) east into West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
Comment
Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364–368, provided a range extension to West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 61–62, provided a brief account. Oliver, Davie-Rieck, Ramdani, Dashper, Kusuma, Lee, Rittmeyer, Clancy, Hamidy, Thompson, Fouquet, Ferreira, and Richards, 2025, Pacific Conserv. Biol., 31(PC24063): 1–12, as part of a larger discussion of the role of citizen science in documenting species ranges in Melanesia noted that iNaturalist observations suggest a range extension to the western edge of the Vogelkop Peninsula in Papua, Indonesia.
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