Cophixalus hosmeri Zweifel, 1985

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Cophixalus > Species: Cophixalus hosmeri

Cophixalus hosmeri Zweifel, 1985, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 182: 321. Holotype: QM J42058, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. Lewis, 6 km west, 9 km north of Mt. Molloy (town), Queensland, elevation 980 m ... by a forestry camp 11.7 km along a road that passes west from a junction 3 km north of Julatten on the Mossman to Mt. Molloy Road", Australia.

Asterophrys hosmeri — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 479, by implication.

English Names

Pipping Nursery-Frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222).

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

Hosmer's Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 368; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 104).

Distribution

Small area west of Mossman on Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia, 800–1370 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See account by Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 368). Hoskin, 2004, Aust. J. Zool., 52: 263, commented on the range and noted that all specimens reported from other than the Carbine Tableland are misidentifications. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 448. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 104–105. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 9, provided a polygon distribution map.

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