Cornufer heffernani

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 (Palmatorappia)
Species: Cornufer heffernani

Name

• Cornufer heffernani (Kinghorn, 1928)

Holotype: AMS R8619.

Type locality: “Tunabuli Harbour, Ysabel Island”, Solomon Islands.

Combinations

• Hypsirana heffernani Kinghorn, 1928: 130 [original combination]
• Cornufer heffernani — Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos & Cannatella, 2015: 151 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Hylella solomonis Sternfeld, 1920: 436 [preoccupied by Cornufer solomonis Boulenger 1884; combined as Palmatorappia solomonis — Ahl, 1927: 114]

Lectotype: SMF 6601. [designated by Mertens (1967: 44)]

Type locality: “Inneres von Buka, Deutsche Salomonen [= Buka Island, Solomon Islands]”.

References

Primary references

• Sternfeld, R. 1920. Zur Tiergeographie Papuasiens unde der pazifischen Inselwelt. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 36: 374–436. BHL
• Ahl, E. [1926] 1927. Ueber neue oder seltene Froschlurche aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1926: 111–117.
• Kinghorn, J.R. 1928. Herpetology of the Solomon Islands. Records of the Australian Museum 16: 123–178.
• 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. 

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 heffernani . Accessed on 20 May 2008.
• Richards, S. & Parker, F. 2004. IUCN: Palmatorappia solomonis  (Vulnerable). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T58446A11782308. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58446A11782308.en

Vernacular names

English: Solomon Island Palm Frog