Xenorhina zweifeli (Kraus and Allison, 2002)
Xenobatrachus zweifeli Kraus and Allison, 2002, Herpetologica, 58: 57. Holotype: BPBM 14052, by original designation. Type locality: "the summit of Mt. Menawa, 10.5 km N, 15.7 km E of Utai Aerodrome, 1920 m elevation, 3.295° S, 141.723° E, Bewani Mts., West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea".
Xenorhina zweifeli — 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
None noted.
Distribution
Bewani and Hunstein Mts., two isolated North Coast ranges of modest elevation, separated by a straight line distance of ca. 140 km, Papua New Guinea.
Comment
In the Xenobatrachus rostratus group and closely similar to Xenobatrachus mehelyi and Xenobatrachus subcroceus according to the original publication. The Xenobatrachus rostratus group rejected by Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 256, who provided a brief account (as Xenobatrachus zweifeli) on page 266.
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