Cornufer batantae (Zweifel, 1969)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ceratobatrachidae > Subfamily: Ceratobatrachinae > Genus: Cornufer > Species: Cornufer batantae

Platymantis batantae Zweifel, 1969, Am. Mus. Novit., 2374: 2. Holotype: AMNH 74192, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. Besar above Wailebet, elevation 1500 feet, Batanta Island, West Irian [Papua (New Guinea)], Indonesia".

Cornufer batantaeBrown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 174: 140. 

English Names

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

Distribution

Batanta and Waigeo Islands, Papua (New Guinea), Indonesia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Endemic: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Comment

See comment under Platymantis bimaculata. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 87, provided a brief account. Portik, Streicher, and Wiens, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 188 (107907): 25, placed this species phylogenetically, as Platymantis batantae, within Cornufer, but without taking any taxonomic action and apparently without regard to the earlier paper by Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 174: 140, where the same conclusion had been reached.  

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