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Issue: Vol. 3178 No. 1: 31 Jan. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-01-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3178.1.3
Page range: 33–44
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of Callulops (Anura: Microhylidae) from montane forests in New Guinea

Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia Herpetology Department, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia
Herpetology Department, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia Rapid Assessment Program, Conservation International, P.O. Box 1024, Atherton, Queensland 4883, Australia
Conservation International – Papua Program. Current address: Komp Ariau Dunlop Sentani, Papua; Indonesia
Anura Central Cordillera Foja Mountains Frog Indonesia Papua New Guinea

Abstract

Two new species of microhylid frogs assigned to the genus Callulops are described from the mountains of New Guinea.Callulops fojaensis sp. nov. is known only from mid-montane forest in the Foja Mountains of Papua Province, IndonesianNew Guinea, and can be distinguished from congeners by the combination of moderate size, short limbs, slightly expandedfinger and toe discs, and uniform brown dorsal and lateral colouration. Callulops mediodiscus sp. nov. is known from asingle site in mid-montane forest in Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, and can be distinguished from allcongeners by its wide finger and toe discs, moderate size and short advertisement call. Description of these two new frogspecies brings the number of Callulops known to 18, of which at least nine are only known from montane regions (>1000 m above sea level).

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