Three new species of Callulops (Anura: Microhylidae) from western New Guinea

Vertebrate Zoology

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Rainer Günther¹  Björn Stelbrink³  Thomas von Rintelen⁴ 

[1] Museum für Naturkunde;Berlin Museum;Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt-University;Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung

关键词: Amphibia;    Anura;    Microhylidae;    Callulops;    new species;    New Guinea;   

DOI  :  10.3897/vz.62.e31400

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Pensoft

【 摘 要 】

Various works in recent years have shown that the microhylid genus Callulops is not a monophyletic group, and that the „central species“ Callulops robustus is not, as previously assumed, distributed over the entire island of New Guinea. Further, Callulops robustus apparently does not occur in the northwestern part of the island. This species is there replaced by a number of other species, and at present no sympatric occurrence of species in the C. robustus-group are known. On the basis of our own collections in the Wondiwoi Mountains at the base of the Wandammen Peninsula as well as on the islands of Yapen and Biak (Cenderawasih Bay) in the years 1998 to 2003, we here describe three new species in the Callulops robustus-group.

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