Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Sphenophryne celebensis Müller, 1894, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 10: 841. Syntypes: NHMB and BMNH 94.9.28.4-5 and 96.12.9.101-102 ( Boulenger, 1895 "1894", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1894: 642; Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 163); NHMB 1340 designated lectotype by Forcart, 1946, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 57: 134. Type locality: "Boelawa-Gebirge ca. 1200 m., Totoiya-Thal 800 m., Gipfel des Gunung Soudara" (= Boelawa Mountains, ca. 1,200 m, [and] Totoiya Valley, 800 m, summit of the Gunung Sudara), North Celebes, Indonesia; which of these localities the lectotype came from cannot be determined ( Forcart, 1946, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 57: 134).

Oreophryne celebensis — Méhely, 1901, Termés. Füzetek, 24: 206, 256.

English Names

Celebes Cross Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91).

Distribution

Northernmost Sulawesi, Indonesia, above 1000 m elevation.

Comment

Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 162, identified a specimen from 2600 m elevation in Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia, as this species but noted some morphological differences. It is most unlikely that the same species of Oreophryne would occur at such a high elevation in New Guinea and in Sulawesi as well according to R.G. Zweifel in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 369. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 202, provided a brief account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 454.

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