Nyctimystes disruptus Tyler, 1963

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pelodryadidae > Genus: Nyctimystes > Species: Nyctimystes disruptus

Nyctimystes disrupta Tyler, 1963, Rec. Aust. Mus., 26: 118. Holotype: AMS R15923, by original designation. Type locality: "at an elevation of 6,000 feet in the Kaironk Valley, Schrader Mountains, Australian Trusteeships Territory of New Guinea" (Madang Province, Papua New Guinea).

Nyctimystes disruptus — Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 108; Kraus, 2013, Mem. Queensland Mus., 56 : 581–587, by implication. 

Litoria disrupta — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362.

Common Names

Madang Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).

Distribution

Schrader, Kubor, and Kratke Ranges of central-east Papua New Guinea, west to Mistkamp, Idenburgh River, Papua, Indonesia, 1500–2000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea

Comment

See Zweifel, 1983, Am. Mus. Novit., 2759: 8–12, Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 155, and Menzies, 2014, Alytes, 31: 65. See comment under Nyctimystes oktediensis.

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