Nyctimystes kubori Zweifel, 1958

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

Nyctimystes kubori Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 18. Holotype: AMNH 55913, by original designation. Type locality: "Kubor Mountains near Kup at an elevation of between 5000 and 8000 feet, North-east New Guinea" (Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea).

Litoria kubori — 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.

Nyctimystes kubori — Kraus, 2013, Mem. Queensland Mus., 56 : 581–587, by implication; Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 57.

Common Names

Sandy Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Distribution

Widespread in the central highlands from approximately 141° to 147° E, as well as in the mountains of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, 1100–2000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

For discussion see Tyler, 1963, Rec. Aust. Mus., 26: 123, Menzies, 1976, Handb. Common New Guinea Frogs: 45, and Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 154–155. Ferreira, Oliver, Kraus, Günther, Richards, Tjaturadi, Arida, Hamidy, Riyanto, Trilaksono, Thébaud, and Fouquet, 2025, Frontiers Biogeograph., 18(e137988): 1–15, suppl. files, suggested that the nominal species is a complex on the basis of molecular and acoustic data.

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