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Platymantis aculeodactylus Brown, 1952

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

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Platymantis aculeodactylus Brown, 1952, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 107: 46. Holotype: USNM 119769, by original designation. Type locality: "Torokina area, Bougainville Island", Solomon Islands.

Cornufer aculeodactylus — Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2.

Platymantis aculeodactylus — Zweifel, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 120. By reference to Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2-3.

Platymantis aculeodactyla — Günther, 1999, Mitt. Mus. Naturkd. Berlin, Zool., 75: 327-328. by implication. Unjustified emendation according to Kraus and Allison, 2007, Zootaxa, 1485: 29-30.

English Names

Torokina Wrinkled Ground Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 104).

Distribution

Bougainville, Choiseul, and Santa Isabel Islands, Solomon Islands.

Comment

Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 97, provided a brief account as did Pikacha, Morrison, and Richards, 2008, Frogs Solomon Islands: 47-48.

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