Papurana papua

The Papua frog (Papurana papua) is a frog from New Guinea. It lives in both Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It also lives on Manus Island and Waigeo Island. Scientists have seen it as high as 1200 meters above sea level.[1][2]

Papurana papua
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Papurana
Species:
P. papua
Binomial name
Papuarana papua
(Lesson, 1829)
Rana papua map-fr.svg
Synonyms[1]
  • Rana papua (lesson, 1829)
  • Limnodytes Waigiensis (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
  • Limnodytes papuensis (Meyer, 1875)
  • Limnodytes papua (Peters and Doria, 1878)
  • Rana papua (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Rana (Hylorana) papua (Boulenger, 1918)
  • Rana (Hylarana) papua (Van Kampen, 1923)
  • Hylorana papua (Deckert, 1938)
  • Rana semelvella (Menzies, 1987)
  • Rana (Papurana) semelvella (Dubois, 1992)
  • Rana (Papurana) papua (Dubois, 1992)
  • Sylvirana papua (Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006)
  • Hylarana papua (Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007)
  • Papurana semelvella (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010)
  • Papurana papua (Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Papurana papua (Lesson, 1829)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
  2. "Papurana papua". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved January 19, 2021.