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. Solomon Islands Giant Treefrog: Cornufer hedigeri'. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2022). p. e.T58461A150476816. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58461A150476816.en. 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.American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  3. ↑ 'Cornufer hedigeri Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos & Cannatella, 2015. AmphibiaWebUniversity of California, Berkeley. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  4. ↑ Rafe M. Brown. Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae).. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174 (1) (2015). p. 130–168. doi:10.1111/zoj.12232. Retrieved February 13, 2023.