Cornufer browni

Cornufer browni is a frog. People have seen it in the mountains near Weitin Valley and on New Ireland Island in Papua New Guinea. People have seen it between 100 and 200 meters above sea level and between 1100 and 1300 meters above sea level.[2][3][1]

Cornufer browni
Conservation status
LC (IUCN3.1Q)[1]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Genus: Cornufer
Species:
C. browni
Binomial name
Cornufer browni
(Allison and Kraus, 2001)
Synonyms[2]
  • Platymantis browni Allison and Kraus, 2001
  • Cornufer browni Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015

The adult male frog is 23.4 mm long and the adult female frog is 26.7 mm long. It has large disks on its toes for climbing. The skin of the frog's back is the color of bronze or gray-brown with light marks. Sometimes the frog has a line down the middle of his back or black marks on its back. The sides of the frog has some red color. The frog's face is dark brown or black in color with some brown-white marks. There is black color on the legs and rear end. The belly is yellow-gray or gray-black in color with silver marks. The iris of the eye is bronze to gold in color.[3]

These frogs live in primary forest and secondary forest where the branches of the trees look like a roof. The frog hides in dead leaves on the ground during the day and moves at night.[3]

The frogs move the most after it rains.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Platymantis browni Allison and Kraus, 2001". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T58453A151005560. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58453A151005560.en. S2CID 241752222. 58453. Retrieved January 24, 2023.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Cornufur browni (Allison and Kraus, 2001)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved January 24, 2023.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Franziska Sandmeier (March 21, 2001). Vance T. Vredenburg (ed.). "Cornufer browni (Allison and Kraus, 2001)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved January 24, 2023.