Vertebrate Zoology 68(2): 109-122, doi:

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

Rainer Günther^‡§, Stephen Richards, Burhan Tjaturadi

‡ Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany§ Berlin Museum, Berlin, Germany

Corresponding author: Burhan Tjaturadi ( btjaturadi@gmail.com )

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Citation: Günther R, Richards S, Tjaturadi B (2018) Two new frog species from the Foja Mountains in northwestern New Guinea (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae). Vertebrate Zoology 68(2): 109-122

Abstract

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.

Keywords

New Guinea, Papua Province, Indonesia, taxonomy, new frogs