Cornufer hedigeri

The Solomon Islands giant tree frog or treasury wrinkled ground frog (Cornufer hedigeri) is a frog. It lives on almost all of the Solomon Islands.[2][3][1]

Cornufer hedigeri
Conservation status
LC (IUCN3.1Q)[1]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Genus: Cornufer
Species:
C. hedigeri
Binomial name
Cornufer hedigeri
(Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015)
Synonyms[2]
  • Cornufer guppyi Boulenger, 1884
  • Platymantis guppyi Zweifel, 1967
  • Cornufer hedigeri Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015

Scientists say this is a "large canopy frog." This means it lives in high in the trees.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Solomon Islands Giant Treefrog: Cornufer hedigeri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T58461A150476816. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58461A150476816.en. S2CID 241665628. 58461. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Cornufur hedigeri (Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  3. "Cornufer hedigeri Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos & Cannatella, 2015". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  4. Rafe M. Brown; Cameron D. Siler; Stephen J. Richards; Arvin C. Diesmos; David C. Cannatella (2015). "Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (full text). 174 (1): 130–168. doi:10.1111/zoj.12232. Retrieved February 13, 2023.