Asterophrys eurydactyla (Zweifel, 1972)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Asterophrys > Species: Asterophrys eurydactyla

Phrynomantis eurydactyla Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 465. Holotype: BPBM 1014, by original designation. Type locality: "Danowaria, 70 m., near Fak Fak on the Onin Peninsula, West Irian [Papua (New Guinea)]", Indonesia.

Callulops eurydactylusDubois, 1988, Alytes, 7: 1-5.

Pseudocallulops eurydactylusGünther, 2009, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 85: 182.

Asterophrys eurydactylaRivera, Kraus, Allison, and Butler, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 112: 7, by implication. 

Asterophrys eurydactylus — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 418, disagreement in gender. 

English Names

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

Distribution

Onin Peninsula, Papua, Indonesia, to Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 242, provided a brief account. Günther, 2009, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 85: 185, doubted if the unique paratype is conspecific with the holotype. Günther, 2009, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 85: 183-184, discussed additional specimens.

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