Oreophryne meliades Kraus, 2016

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Oreophryne > Species: Oreophryne meliades

Oreophryne meliades Kraus, 2016, Zootaxa, 4195: 36. Holotype: BPBM 20502, by original designation. Type locality: "Araeda, Sudest Island, 11.4347° S, 153.4311° E, 30 m a.s.l., Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea". Zoobank publication registration: 2CBFFBCC-AFB2-423C-9B76-343DEBF76814

Asterophrys meliades — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 521, by implication. 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality near the coast on Sudest Island, Papua New Guinea; likely to occur throughout the lowlands of that island and it remains to be determined whether this species will be found on some of the smaller islands lying just to the north and northwest of Sudest. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

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