Xenorhina obesa (Zweifel, 1960)
Xenobatrachus obesus Zweifel, 1960, Am. Mus. Novit., 2012: 1. Holotype: AMNH 64247, by original designation. Type locality: "Maratambu, Adelbert Mountains, Northeast New Guinea [Madang Province, Papua New Guinea], elevation 2300 feet".
Xenorhina obesa — 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
Fat Fanged Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).
Distribution
Northern foothills of the Nassau Mountains, Papua (Indonesia), eastward in the north coast ranges of Papua New Guinea, 700-800 m elevation.
Comment
Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 262, provided a brief account (as Xenobatrachus obesus). Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, suggested on the basis of Genbank sequences that Xenorhina obesa falls well outside of nominal Xenorhina, rendering that genus polyphyletic.
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