Cornufer macrosceles

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Ceratobatrachidae
Subfamilia: Ceratobatrachinae
Genus: Cornufer
Subgenus: Cornufer (Aenigmanura)
Species: Cornufer macrosceles

Name

Cornufer macrosceles (Zweifel, 1975)

• Holotype: BPBM 1005, adult ♀.
• Type locality: “Ti, Nakanai Mountains, New Britain”, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea.

Combinations

• Platymantis macrosceles Zweifel, 1975: 2 [original combination]
• Cornufer (Aenigmanura) macrosceles — Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos & Cannatella, 2015: 153 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Zweifel, R.G. 1975. Two new frogs of the genus Platymantis (Ranidae) from New Britain. American Museum Novitates 2582: 1–7. handle.
• Brown, R.M., Siler, D.S., Richards, S.J., Diesmos, A.C. & Cannatella, D.C. 2015. Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 174(1): 130–168. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12232 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Foufopoulos, J. & Brown, R.M. 2004. A new frog of the genus Platymantis (Amphibia; Anura; Ranidae) from New Britain,with a redescription of the poorly-known Platymantis macrosceles. Copeia 2004(4): 825–841. DOI: 10.1643/CH-03-235R1 Reference page. 

Links

• Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Cornufer macrosceles . Accessed on 20 May 2008.
• Richards, S. & Allison, A. 2004. IUCN: Cornufer macrosceles  (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58466A11773983. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58466A11773983.en

Vernacular names

English: Ti Wrinkled Ground Frog