Xenorhina mehelyi (Boulenger, 1898)
Choanacantha mehelyi Boulenger, 1898, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 18: 709. Holotype: MSNG 29112, according to Capocaccia, 1957, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 69: 218. Type locality: "Vikaiku", Angabunga River, Central Province, Papua New Guinea.
Xenobatrachus mehelyi — Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 517.
Xenorhina mehelyi — 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: 366.
English Names
Mehely's Fanged Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).
Distribution
Moderately low elevations in the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea, from near the Papua (Indonesia) border almost to Port Moresby.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Xenobatrachus rostrata by Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 517, where it had been placed by Méhely, 1901, Termés. Füzetek, 24: 233; Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 55. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 261, provided a brief account (as Xenobatrachus mehelyi).
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