Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Nyctimystes montana Parker, 1936, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 17: 80. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.24.31 (formerly 1935.3.9.176) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 96. Type locality: "Mondo, Papua (5000 ft.)", Central Province, Papua New Guinea. Secondary homonym of Hyla montana Peters and Doria, 1878.

Nyctimystes cheesmani Tyler, 1964, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 27: 268. Replacement name for Nyctimystes montana Parker, 1936.

Nyctimystes cheesmanae — Menzies, 1976, Handb. Common New Guinea Frogs: 45. Unjustified emendation according to Dubois, 2007, Zootaxa, 1550: 67. See comment.

Litoria cheesmanae — 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.

English Names

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

Distribution

Montane Central Province, Papua New guinea.

Comment

For discussion see Zweifel, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1896: 21 (as Nyctimystes montana) Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 155-156, provided a brief account (as Nyctimystes cheesmanae) and suggested that more than one species may exist under this name. Brandon-Jones, Duckworth, Jenkins, Rylands, and Sarmiento, 2007, Zootaxa, 1541: 41-48, and Dubois, 2007, Zootaxa, 1550: 49-68, discussed the nomenclatural principles that prevent the name cheesmani from being emendable to cheesmanae. Kraus, 2012, Zootaxa, 3493: 1-26, redelimited the species and provided an account.

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