Biology:Cornufer adiastolus

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Short description: Species of frog

Cornufer adiastolus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ceratobatrachidae
Genus: Cornufer
Species:
C. adiastolus
Binomial name
Cornufer adiastolus
(Brown, Richards, Sukumaran, and Foufopoulos, 2006)
Synonyms[2]
  • Platymantis adiastola Brown, Richards, Sukumaran, and Foufopoulos, 2006
  • Platymantis adiastolus Frost, 2008
  • Cornufer (Aenigmanura) adiastolus Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015

Cornufer adiastolus is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae, endemic to New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea. Scientists first observed this frog in the Wanui River Valley, 310 meters above sea level.[2][3][1]

Original description

  • Brown, Rafe M.; Richards, Stephen J.; Sukumaran, Jeet; Foufopoulos, Johannes (2006). "A new morphologically cryptic species of forest frog (genus Platymantis) from New Britain Island, Bismarck Archipelago". Zootaxa 1334: 45–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1334.1.3. 

References

Wikidata ☰ Q28057338 entry