Mountain big-eyed tree frog | |
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Holotype of Nyctimystes montanus. Illustration from the original species description by Wilhelm Peters and Giacomo Doria (1878). | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hylidae |
Genus: | Nyctimystes |
Species: | N. montanus
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Binomial name | |
Nyctimystes montanus | |
Synonyms [3] | |
Hyla (Litoria) montana Peters and Doria, 1878
[2] |
Nyctimystes montanus (common name: mountain big-eyed tree frog) is a species of frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. [3] It is endemic to the Arfak Mountains, located in the Bird's Head Peninsula of northwestern New Guinea. [1] [3] This species is only known from its type locality ("Hatam sul Monte Arfak"). [1] [3] There are no records of this species after it was described in 1878, [1] [4] perhaps because of lack of surveys. [1]
The holotype—and the only known specimen [4]—is an adult male collected by Odoardo Beccari in 1875. It measures 62 mm (2.4 in) in snout–vent length. The tympanum is small. The skin of dorsum is smooth. [2] It resembles Nyctimystes kuduki but has a snout that is distinctly truncate at the tip (angular in N. kuduki). The palpebral venation has many horizontal connections (other Nyctimystes have only vertically oriented veins). [4]
The ecology and current population status of this species are essentially unknown. It is a montane frog that probably lives in streams in tropical rainforest. Threats to it are unknown. The type locality is within the Arfak Mountains National Park. [1]
Mountain big-eyed tree frog | |
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Holotype of Nyctimystes montanus. Illustration from the original species description by Wilhelm Peters and Giacomo Doria (1878). | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hylidae |
Genus: | Nyctimystes |
Species: | N. montanus
|
Binomial name | |
Nyctimystes montanus | |
Synonyms [3] | |
Hyla (Litoria) montana Peters and Doria, 1878
[2] |
Nyctimystes montanus (common name: mountain big-eyed tree frog) is a species of frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. [3] It is endemic to the Arfak Mountains, located in the Bird's Head Peninsula of northwestern New Guinea. [1] [3] This species is only known from its type locality ("Hatam sul Monte Arfak"). [1] [3] There are no records of this species after it was described in 1878, [1] [4] perhaps because of lack of surveys. [1]
The holotype—and the only known specimen [4]—is an adult male collected by Odoardo Beccari in 1875. It measures 62 mm (2.4 in) in snout–vent length. The tympanum is small. The skin of dorsum is smooth. [2] It resembles Nyctimystes kuduki but has a snout that is distinctly truncate at the tip (angular in N. kuduki). The palpebral venation has many horizontal connections (other Nyctimystes have only vertically oriented veins). [4]
The ecology and current population status of this species are essentially unknown. It is a montane frog that probably lives in streams in tropical rainforest. Threats to it are unknown. The type locality is within the Arfak Mountains National Park. [1]