Callulops personatus (Zweifel, 1972)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Callulops > Species: Callulops personatus

Phrynomantis personata Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 489. Holotype: AMNH 74903, by original designation. Type locality: "Maprik, elevation 800 ft. (240 m.), East Sepik District [East Sepik Province], Territory of New Guinea [Papua New Guinea]".

Callulops personatusDubois, 1988, Alytes, 7: 1-5.

Asterophrys personata — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 691, by implication. See comment under Callulops

English Names

Maprik Callulops Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88).

Distribution

Between the Sepik River and the summit of the north coastal ranges, East Sepik and West Sepik provinces, as well as over 500 km to the east on Mount Shungol and on the eastern slope of th Bowutu Mountains, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

Not mentioned by Burton, 1986, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 19: 405-450. See Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364-368. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 244, provided a brief account. Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364-368, provided the first records for Papua New Guinea.; also cal 500 km to the east on Mount Shungol and on the eastern slope of th Bowutu Mountains, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

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