Two new frog species from the Foja Mountains in northwestern New Guinea (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae)

Vertebrate Zoology

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Rainer Günther¹  Stephen Richards³  Burhan Tjaturadi⁴ 

[1] Museum für Naturkunde;Berlin Museum;Herpetology Department;Center for Environmental Studies, Sanata Dharma University

关键词: New Guinea;    Papua Province;    Indonesia;    taxonomy;    new frogs;   

DOI  :  10.3897/vz.68.e31596

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Pensoft

【 摘 要 】

Two new microhylid frogs in the genera Choerophryne and Oreophryne are described from the Foja Mountains in Papua Province of Indonesia. Both are small species (males 15.9 – 18.5 mm snout-urostyle length SUL and 21.3 – 22.9 mm SUL respectively) that call from elevated positions on foliage in primary lower montane rainforest. The new Choerophryne species can be distinguished from all congeners by, among other characters, a unique advertisement call consisting of an unpulsed (or very finely pulsed) peeping note lasting 0.29 – 0.37 seconds. The new Oreophryne species belongs to a group that has a cartilaginous connection between the procoracoid and scapula and rattling advertisement calls. Its advertisement call is a loud rattle lasting 1.2 – 1.5 s with a note repetition rate of 11.3 – 11.7 notes per second.

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