Platymantis guentheri (Boulenger, 1882)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ceratobatrachidae > Subfamily: Ceratobatrachinae > Genus: Platymantis > Species: Platymantis guentheri

Cornufer guentheri Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 108. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.31–34 (formerly 1877.10.9.52) according to Brown, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 467. Type locality: "Dinagat Island", Philippines.

Cornufer ingeri Brown and Alcala, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 672. Holotype: CAS-SU 21214, by original designation. Type locality: "700 meters, Cantaub area, 14 km southeast of Sierra Bullones, Bohol Island, Philippines". Synonymy by Brown, Alcala, Diesmos, and Alcala, 1997, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 50: 4.

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

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

Platymantis (Tahananpuno) guentheri — Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 174: 146. 

English Names

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

Distribution

Rainforest on the Great Mindanao group of islands (Mindanao, Dinagat, Bohol, and Biliran), Philippines, 0–700 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Philippines

Endemic: Philippines

Comment

See comment under Philautus worcesteri. See Brown, Alcala, Diesmos, and Alcala, 1997, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 50: 1-20, for placement in the Platymantis guentheri group, account and distinction from cryptic species. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 494. See brief account by Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos, Alcala, and Brown, 2016, ZooKeys, 624: 19–21. See brief accounts (including one apparently unnamed species) by Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos, Alcala, and Brown, 2016, ZooKeys, 624: 21. 

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