Platyplectrum aganoposis (Zweifel, 1972)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Platyplectrum > Species: Platyplectrum aganoposis

Lechriodus aganoposis Zweifel, 1972, Am. Mus. Novit., 2507: 3. Holotype: AMNH 75791, by original designation. Type locality: "Numbut, Mt. Rawlinson, ca. 4200 ft. (ca. 1280 m.), Morobe District, Territory of Papua-New Guinea" (Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea).

Platyplectrum aganopsis — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 201, by implication.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Scattered localities on the Huon Peninsula and along the central mountainous spine of New Guinea from Purosa (Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea) west to the Sibil Valley (Irian Jaya, Indonesia), 1000-2000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea

Comment

Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 61, provided a brief account.

External links:

Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.