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Xenorhina tumulus (Blum and Menzies, 1989)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Xenorhina

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Xenobatrachus tumulus Blum and Menzies, 1989 "1988", Alytes, 7: 145. Holotype: UP 7238, by original designation. Type locality: "Mambimap, 1500 m, in the Adelbert Range, Madang Province of Papua New Guinea".

Xenorhina tumulus — 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

Madang Fanged Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).

Distribution

Adelbert Range (Madang Province) and the Bewani and Torricelli Mountains (West Sepik Province), Papua New Guinea.

Comment

In the Xenobatrachus rostratus group of Blum and Menzies, 1989 "1988", Alytes, 7: 125-163, rejected by Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 256, who provided a brief account (as Xenobatrachus tumulus) on page 265-266. Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364-368, provided records from the Bewani and Torricelli Mountains of Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Shea and Kraus, 2007, Zootaxa, 1514: 37-60, commented on types.

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