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Hylarana volkerjane (Günther, 2003)
Rana (Papurana) volkerjane Günther, 2003, Mitt. Mus. Naturkd. Berlin, Zool., 79: 218. Holotype: ZMB 64005, by original designation. Type locality: "in the Wondiwoi Mountains at the base of the Wandammen Peninsula, about 8 km west of the coastal village of Yeretuar, at 550 m a.s.l., 2° 46′ S, 134° 37′ E, Papua, Province of Indonesia".
Sylvirana volkerjane — 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: 370.
Hylarana volkerjane — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3, by implication; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 525, by implication.
Papurana volkerjane — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34; Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 190.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Eastern slopes of the Wondiwoi Mountains, 250-700 m elevation, Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia; Bewani and Torricelli mountains, West Sepik Province, and Prince Alexander Mountains of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
Comment
Most similar to Rana aurata according to the original publication. Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364-368, provided the first records for Papua New Guinea. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 74, provided a brief account. Kraus, 2013, Herpetol. Rev., 44: 278, provided a record from the Prince Alexander Mountains, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
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