Xenobatrachus huon Blum & Menzies 1988: 142

Shea, Glenn M. & Kraus, Fred, 2007, A list of herpetological type specimens in the collections of the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery and University of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 1514 (1), pp. 37-60 : 53

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1514.1.2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17857199

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1B4B8799-FFE7-0A0D-DECD-08C4FE5A93C8

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Xenobatrachus huon Blum & Menzies 1988: 142
status

 

Xenobatrachus huon Blum & Menzies 1988: 142 View in CoL .

Holotype: UPNG 7431 (formerly AMNH 76097), no data recorded in UPNG register but noted as from mountains at head of Kua River Valley , 5300-7100ft, Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, PNG ( H.M. Van Deusen, S.O. Grierson, 26.viii.1964) in AMNH register.

Paratypes: UPNG 7424-30, 7432-33, data as for holotype.

Remarks: Entire type series of ten specimens in UPNG. Type series was part of a larger series in AMNH reported by Zweifel (1972). Description gave the data for the type series as upper Kau River valley, 1630-2130m, Rawlinson Mts, Morobe Province, PNG (H.M. van Deusen, S.O. Grierson, vii.1964). Holotype and paratypes 7429-30, 7432- 33 are largely macerated sacs of bone, with some tags missing. Paratypes 7424-25, 7427 not found. Paratypes 7426, 7428 are in good condition.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Microhylidae

Genus

Xenobatrachus

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