Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Mantophryne robusta Boulenger, 1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898: 480. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.11.5-7 (formerly 98.3.31.9-11, according to Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 65). Type locality: "St. Aignan I. [= Misima I.], south of Fergusson I., British New Guinea [Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea]".

Gnathophryne robusta — Méhely, 1901, Termés. Füzetek, 24: 178, 225.

Hylophorbus microtis — Van Kampen, 1919, Bijdr. Dierkd., 21: 54.

Hylophorbus robustus — Van Kampen, 1919, Bijdr. Dierkd., 21: 54.

Phrynomantis robustus — Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 20. by implication.

Asterophrys robusta — Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 64.

Phrynomantis robusta — Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 497.

Callulops robustus — Dubois, 1988, Alytes, 7: 1-5.

English Names

Boulenger's Callulops Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88).

Robust Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 98).

Distribution

Almost certainly restricted to Misima Island, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, but range is incompletely understood.

Comment

Not listed by Burton, 1986, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 19: 405-450; without discussion. Günther, 2003, Faun. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd., Dresden, 24: 212, noted that this name covered more than a single species, a situation that was rectified by Kraus, 2012, Herpetologica, 68: 256-265. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 244-245, provided a brief account. Kraus and Allison, 2009, Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap., 104: 5, suggested that all mainland records of this nominal taxon all refer to unnamed species.

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