Cornufer caesiops (Kraus and Allison, 2009)

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

Platymantis caesiops Kraus and Allison, 2009, Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap., 104: 25. Holotype: BPBM 22229, by original designation. Type locality: "9 km NNW Marmar, Nakanai Mts., 5.4473° S, 151.46307° E, 865 m, New Britain Island, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea".

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

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Vicinity of Jacquinot Bay, New Britain, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea; likely to range at moderate elevations across New Britain.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

Closely related to Platymantis browni according to the original publication. Portik, Streicher, and Wiens, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 188 (107907): 25, placed this species phylogenetically as Platymantis caesiops, 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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