''Cornufer'' is a genus of
frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-f ...
s in the family
Ceratobatrachidae
The Ceratobatrachidae are a family of frogs found in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Philippines, Palau, Fiji, New Guinea, and the Admiralty, Bismarck, and Solomon Islands.
Taxonomy
Ceratobatrachidae was formerly treated as a subfamily (i.e ...
. It has been greatly expanded by Brown, et al. (2015) to include most
Australasia
Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically, physiogeographically, philologically, and ecologica ...
n frogs in the family
Ceratobatrachidae
The Ceratobatrachidae are a family of frogs found in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Philippines, Palau, Fiji, New Guinea, and the Admiralty, Bismarck, and Solomon Islands.
Taxonomy
Ceratobatrachidae was formerly treated as a subfamily (i.e ...
.
Species are found in
Melanesia
Melanesia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from Indonesia's New Guinea in the west to Fiji in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea.
The region includes the four independent countries of Fiji, Va ...
and
Polynesia
Polynesia () "many" and νῆσος () "island"), to, Polinisia; mi, Porinihia; haw, Polenekia; fj, Polinisia; sm, Polenisia; rar, Porinetia; ty, Pōrīnetia; tvl, Polenisia; tkl, Polenihia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of ...
— in
Palau
Palau,, officially the Republic of Palau and historically ''Belau'', ''Palaos'' or ''Pelew'', is an island country and microstate in the western Pacific. The nation has approximately 340 islands and connects the western chain of the Caro ...
,
Fiji
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,
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu
Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea).
It is a simplified version of ...
, and in the
Admiralty
Admiralty most often refers to:
*Admiralty, Hong Kong
*Admiralty (United Kingdom), military department in command of the Royal Navy from 1707 to 1964
*The rank of admiral
*Admiralty law
Admiralty can also refer to:
Buildings
* Admiralty, Traf ...
,
Bismarck, and
Solomon Islands
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.
Species
There are currently at least 50 extant species in this genus.
* ''
Cornufer acrochordus''
(Brown, 1965)
* ''
Cornufer aculeodactylus''
(Brown, 1952)
* ''
Cornufer adiastolus''
(Brown, Richards, Sukumaran, and Foufopoulos, 2006)
* ''
Cornufer admiraltiensis''
(Richards, Mack & Austin, 2007)
* ''
Cornufer akarithymus''
(Brown & Tyler, 1968)
* ''
Cornufer batantae''
(Zweifel, 1969)
* ''
Cornufer bimaculatus''
(Günther, 1999)
* ''
Cornufer boulengeri''
(Boettger, 1892)
* ''
Cornufer browni''
(Allison & Kraus, 2001)
* ''
Cornufer bufoniformis''
(Boulenger, 1884)
* ''
Cornufer bufonulus''
(Kraus and Allison, 2007)
* ''
Cornufer caesiops''
(Kraus and Allison, 2009)
* ''
Cornufer cheesmanae''
(Parker, 1940)
* ''
Cornufer citrinospilus''
(Brown, Richards, and Broadhead, 2013)
* ''
Cornufer cryptotis''
(Günther, 1999)
* ''
Cornufer custos''
(Richards, Oliver, and Brown, 2015)
* ''
Cornufer desticans''
(Brown & Richards, 2008)
* ''
Cornufer elegans''
(Brown and Parker, 1970)
* ''
Cornufer exedrus''
(Travers, Richards, Broadhead, and Brown, 2018)
* ''
Cornufer gigas''
(Brown and Parker, 1970)
* ''
Cornufer gilliardi''
(Zweifel, 1960)
* ''
Cornufer guentheri''
(Boulenger, 1884)
* ''
Cornufer guppyi''
(Boulenger, 1884)
* ''
Cornufer hedigeri
''Cornufer hedigeri'', commonly known as the Treasury wrinkled ground frog or Solomon Islands giant treefrog, is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae, named after Henry B. Guppy who collected the holotype from the Treasury Islands. ...
''
(Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015)
* ''
Cornufer heffernani''
(Kinghorn, 1928)
* ''
Cornufer latro''
(Richards, Mack & Austin, 2007)
* ''
Cornufer macrops''
(Brown, 1965)
* ''
Cornufer macrosceles''
(Zweifel, 1975)
* ''
Cornufer magnus''
(Brown & Menzies, 1979)
* ''
Cornufer malukuna''
(Brown and Webster, 1969)
* ''
Cornufer mamusiorum''
(Foufopoulos and Brown, 2004)
* ''
Cornufer manus''
(Kraus and Allison, 2009)
* ''
Cornufer mediodiscus''
(Brown and Parker, 1970)
* ''
Cornufer mimicus''
(Brown & Tyler, 1968)
* ''
Cornufer minutus''
(Brown and Parker, 1970)
* ''
Cornufer montanus''
(Brown and Parker, 1970)
* ''
Cornufer myersi''
(Brown, 1949)
* ''
Cornufer nakanaiorum''
(Brown, Foufopoulos, and Richards, 2006)
* ''
Cornufer neckeri''
(Brown & Myers, 1949)
* ''
Cornufer nexipus''
(Zweifel, 1975)
* ''
Cornufer opisthodon''
(Boulenger, 1884)
* ''
Cornufer paepkei''
(Günther, 2015)
* ''
Cornufer papuensis''
(Meyer, 1875)
* ''
Cornufer parilis''
(Brown & Richards, 2008)
* ''
Cornufer parkeri''
(Brown, 1965)
* ''
Cornufer pelewensis''
(Peters, 1867)
* ''
Cornufer punctatus''
(Peters & Doria, 1878)
* ''
Cornufer schmidti''
(Brown & Tyler, 1968)
* ''
Cornufer solomonis''
(Boulenger, 1884)
* ''
Cornufer sulcatus''
(Kraus and Allison, 2007)
* ''
Cornufer trossulus''
(Brown and Myers, 1949)
* ''
Cornufer vertebralis''
(Boulenger, 1887)
* ''
Cornufer vitianus''
(Duméril, 1853)
* ''
Cornufer vitiensis
''Platymantis vitiensis'' (common names: Fiji tree frog, Levuka wrinkled ground frog) is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae.
It is one of two endemic frogs in Fiji, the other being the closely related ''Platymantis vitianus'' (Viti ...
''
(Girard, 1853)
* ''
Cornufer vogti''
(Hediger, 1934)
* ''
Cornufer weberi''
(Schmidt, 1932)
* ''
Cornufer wolfi''
(Sternfeld, 1920)
* ''
Cornufer wuenscheorum''
(Günther, 2006)
References
AmphibiaWeb
Ceratobatrachidae
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by Johann Jakob von Tschudi
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