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Ceratobatrachus guentheri Boulenger, 1884

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ceratobatrachidae > Genus: Ceratobatrachus

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Ceratobatrachus guentheri Boulenger, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1884: 212. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.29.60-78 (formerly 84.3.24.18-37), MCZ 2207 (2 specimens), according to W.C. Brown in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 457. Type locality: "Treasury, Shortland, and Faro Islands", Solomon Islands.

English Names

Gunther's Triangle Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).

Solomon Island Eyelash Frog (Pikacha, Morrison, and Richards, 2008, Frogs Solomon Islands: 35).

Guenther's Triangle Frog (Pikacha, Morrison, and Richards, 2008, Frogs Solomon Islands: 35).

Distribution

All of the Solomon Island chain, except for San Cristobal.

Comment

See account by Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 228-229, and Brown, 1952, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 107: 28-31. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 79, provided a brief account as did Pikacha, Morrison, and Richards, 2008, Frogs Solomon Islands: 35-36.

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