Xenorhina multisica (Blum and Menzies, 1989)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Xenorhina > Species: Xenorhina multisica

Xenobatrachus multisica Blum and Menzies, 1989 "1988", Alytes, 7: 150. Holotype: UP 7405, by original designation. Type locality: "Monggona, Eipomek Valley, Irian Jaya [now Papua], Jayawijaya Division, altitude 1800 m", Indonesia.

Xenorhina multisicaFrost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 366.

Asterophrys multisica — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 557, by implication.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the Eipomek and adjacent Famek Valley of western New Guinea (Papua, Indonesia).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Endemic: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Comment

In the Xenobatrachus rostratus group of Blum and Menzies, 1989 "1988", Alytes, 7: 125–163, rejected by Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 256, who provided a brief account (as Xenobatrachus multisica) on page 261–262. Shea and Kraus, 2007, Zootaxa, 1514: 37–60, commented on types.

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