Cophixalus balbus Günther, 2003
Cophixalus balbus Günther, 2003, Herpetozoa, 16: 5. Holotype: ZMB 62592, by original designation. Type locality: "about 7 km north of the village of Konti (about 12 km north-east of Serui) on Yapen Island, 1° 47′ S and 136° 18′ E, altitude 650 m a.s.l., Papua, Province of Indonesia", New Guinea.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Known only from the vicinity of the type locality at 600-700 m elevation in the Waira Mountains, about 7 km north of the village of Konti on Yapen Island, northeastern Cenderawasih Bay, Papua, Indonesia (New Guinea); also reported over 600 km to the east of the type locality in the Hunstein Mountains (East Sepik Province) and Bewani and Torricelli mountains (West Sepik Province), Papua New Guinea.
Comment
Closely related to Cophixalus biroi according to the original publication. Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364-368, provided records for Papua New Guinea. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed this result suggested that Cophixalus balbus is phylogenetically imbedded within Oreophryne.
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