Copiula derongo (Zweifel, 2000)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Copiula > Species: Copiula derongo

Austrochaperina derongo Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 27. Holotype: AMNH 82289, by original designation. Type locality: "Derongo, 400 m, Western Province, Papua New Guinea".

Copiula derongo — Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 139. 

Asterophrys derongo — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 418. 

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Moderate to low elevations along the southern flank of the central dividing range in the Wapoga River drainage (Papua, Indonesia) to the Purari River drainage in Gulf and Simbu Provinces, Papua New Guinea.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 218, provided a brief account. Shea and Kraus, 2007, Zootaxa, 1514: 37–60, commented on types.

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