Choerophryne sanguinopicta (Kraus and Allison, 2005)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Choerophryne > Species: Choerophryne sanguinopicta

Albericus sanguinopictus Kraus and Allison, 2005, Pacific Sci., 59: 45. Holotype: BPBM 17833, by original designation. Type locality: "near Etakaba Creek, approximately 1 km SE Bunisi Village, 10.0245° S, 149.5947° E, 1,490-1,540 m, N slope of Mt. Simpson, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea".

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

Asterophrys sanguinopicta — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 477, by implication. 

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality although expected throughout the lower montane forest surrounding Mount Simpson, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 178, provided a brief account.

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