Xenorhina schiefenhoeveli (Blum and Menzies, 1989)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Xenorhina > Species: Xenorhina schiefenhoeveli

Xenobatrachus schiefenhoeveli Blum and Menzies, 1989 "1988", Alytes, 7: 143. Holotype: UP 7399, by original designation. Type locality: "Munggona in the Eipomek Valley of Irian Jaya [now Papua], Jayawijaya Division, altitude 1800 m", Indonesia.

Xenorhina schiefenhoeveliFrost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 366.

Asterophrys schiefenhoeveli — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 557, by implication.

English Names

Munggona Fanged Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the Eipomek Valley, Papua, Indonesia (New Guinea).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Endemic: Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region

Comment

In the Xenobatrachus rostratus group of Blum and Menzies, 1989 "1988", Alytes, 7: 125–163, rejected by Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 256, who provided a brief account (as Xenobatrachus schiefenhoeveli) on page 264. Shea and Kraus, 2007, Zootaxa, 1514: 37–60, commented on types.

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