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 disruptusDuellman, 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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