List of endemic amphibians of Papua New Guinea

This is a list of the endemic amphibian species recorded in Papua New Guinea.^[1]

Species[edit]

Ceratobatrachidae[edit]

• Cornufer adiastolus
• Cornufer admiraltiensis, Admiralty wrinkled ground frog
• Cornufer akarithymus, Pomugu wrinkled ground frog
• Cornufer boulengeri, Boulenger’s wrinkled ground frog
• Cornufer citrinospilus
• Cornufer elegans
• Cornufer exedrus
• Cornufer gigas
• Cornufer gilliardi, Gilliard’s wrinkled ground frog
• Cornufer latro, Manus wrinkled ground frog
• Cornufer macrosceles, Ti wrinkled ground frog
• Cornufer magnus, Kavieng wrinkled ground frog
• Cornufer malukuna
• Cornufer mamusiorum, Mamusi wrinkled ground frog
• Cornufer mediodiscus
• Cornufer minutus
• Cornufer montanus
• Cornufer nakanaiorum, Nakanai wrinkled ground frog
• Cornufer nexipus, Baining wrinkled ground frog
• Cornufer schmidti, Schmidt’s wrinkled ground frog
• Cornufer sulcatus
• Cornufer vogti
• Platymantis browni, Brown’s wrinkled ground frog
• Platymantis bufonulus
• Platymantis caesiops
• Platymantis macrops, Aresi wrinkled ground frog
• Platymantis manus
• Platymantis mimicus, Numundo wrinkled ground frog
• Platymantis myersi, Myers’ wrinkled ground frog
• Platymantis parkeri, Parker’s wrinkled ground frog

Hylidae[edit]

• Litoria albolabris, Wandolleck’s white-lipped tree frog
• Litoria auae
• Litoria becki, Beck’s tree frog
• Litoria bibonius
• Litoria bulmeri, Bulmer’s tree frog
• Litoria callista
• Litoria chloristona
• Litoria chrisdahli
• Litoria contrastens, Barabuna tree frog
• Litoria darlingtoni, Darlington’s Madang tree frog
• Litoria dorsalis, dwarf rocket frog
• Litoria dorsivena, eastern mountains tree frog
• Litoria eschata
• Litoria exophthalmia
• Litoria flavescens
• Litoria graminea, northern New Guinea tree frog
• Litoria hilli
• Litoria hunti
• Litoria impura, southern New Guinea tree frog
• Litoria jeudii
• Litoria kumae
• Litoria leucova, West Sepik tree frog
• Litoria lodesdema
• Litoria louisiadensis, Rossell tree frog
• Litoria majikthise
• Litoria multiplica, Kassam tree frog
• Litoria nullicedens
• Litoria oenicolen, Trauna River tree frog
• Litoria ollauro
• Litoria pallidofemora
• Litoria pronimia
• Litoria prora, Efogi tree frog
• Litoria robinsonae
• Litoria rubrops
• Litoria sauroni
• Litoria singadanae
• Litoria spartacus
• Litoria spinifera, spiny tree frog
• Litoria timida, Menemsorae tree frog
• Litoria vocivincens, Brown River tree frog
• Nyctimystes avocalis, loud big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes bivocalis
• Nyctimystes calcaratus
• Nyctimystes cheesmani, Cheesman’s big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes cryptochrysos
• Nyctimystes daymani, Dayman big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes disruptus, Madang big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes eucavatus
• Nyctimystes foricula, Kaironk big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes gularis, Mondo big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes intercastellus
• Nyctimystes kubori, sandy big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes kuduki
• Nyctimystes latratus
• Nyctimystes myolae
• Nyctimystes narinosus, common big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes obsoletus, Simbang big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes ocreptus
• Nyctimystes papua, Papua big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes perimetri, archipelago big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes persimilis, Milne big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes semipalmatus, Kokoda big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes trachydermis, Morobe big-eyed tree frog
• Nyctimystes traunae
• Nyctimystes tyleri
• Nyctimystes zweifeli, Zweifel’s big-eyed tree frog

Microhylidae[edit]

• Aphantophryne minuta, Myola New Guinea frog
• Aphantophryne pansa, Scratchley New Guinea frog
• Aphantophryne sabini, Guest House New Guinea frog
• Asterophrys leucopus, Stolle New Guinea bush frog
• Austrochaperina adamantina, Nibo land frog
• Austrochaperina alexanderi, Alexander’s land frog
• Austrochaperina aquilonia, Somoro land frog
• Austrochaperina archboldi, Archbold’s land frog
• Austrochaperina brevipes, Victoria land frog
• Austrochaperina guttata, spotted land frog
• Austrochaperina hooglandi, Hoogland’s land frog
• Austrochaperina laurae, Laura’s land frog
• Austrochaperina mehelyi, Mehely’s land frog
• Austrochaperina novaebritanniae, New Britain land frog
• Austrochaperina palmipes, Dayman land frog
• Austrochaperina parkeri, Parker’s land frog
• Austrochaperina polysticta, Morobe land frog
• Austrochaperina rivularis, Finalbin land frog
• Austrochaperina septentrionalis, northern land frog
• Austrochaperina yelaensis, Yela land frog
• Barygenys apodasta
• Barygenys atra, Gunther’s Papua frog
• Barygenys cheesmanae, Cheesman’s Papua frog
• Barygenys exsul, Zwefel’s Papua frog
• Barygenys flavigularis, yellow-throated Papua frog
• Barygenys maculata, spotted Papua frog
• Barygenys nana, Highland Papua frog
• Barygenys parvula, Madang Papua frog
• Barygenys resima
• Callulops comptus, ornate callulops frog
• Callulops doriae, Doria’s callulops frog
• Callulops eremnosphax
• Callulops glandulosus, warty callulops frog
• Callulops humicola, Kotuni callulops frog
• Callulops marmoratus, marbled callulops frog
• Callulops mediodiscus
• Callulops microtis
• Callulops omnistriatus
• Callulops robustus, robust callulops frog
• Callulops sagittatus, Binnie callulops frog
• Callulops stictogaster, Irumbofoie callulops frog
• Callulops wilhelmanus, Wilhelm callulops frog
• Choerophryne allisoni, Allison’s mountain frog
• Choerophryne alpestris
• Choerophryne bickfordi
• Choerophryne brevicrus
• Choerophryne brunhildae, Adelbert rainforest frog
• Choerophryne bryonopsis
• Choerophryne burtoni, Burton’s mountain frog
• Choerophryne darlingtoni, Darlington’s rainforest frog
• Choerophryne epirrhina
• Choerophryne exclamitans
• Choerophryne fafniri, mid-montane rainforest frog
• Choerophryne gracilirostris
• Choerophryne grylloides
• Choerophryne gudrunae, Kowat rainforest frog
• Choerophryne gunnari, Gunnar’s rainforest frog
• Choerophryne longirostris, Menawa mountain frog
• Choerophryne murrita
• Choerophryne pandanicola
• Choerophryne rhenaurum, Moiyok rainforest frog
• Choerophryne rostellifer, Torricelli mountain frog
• Choerophryne sanguinopicta, Mount Simpson rainforest frog
• Choerophryne siegfriedi, Siegfried’s rainforest frog
• Choerophryne swanhildae, Southern Highlands rainforest frog
• Choerophryne tubercula, warty rainforest frog
• Choerophryne valkuriarum, Hidden Valley rainforest frog
• Cophixalus albolineatus
• Cophixalus amabilis
• Cophixalus ateles, Papua rainforest frog
• Cophixalus bewaniensis, Menawa rainforest frog
• Cophixalus caverniphilus
• Cophixalus cheesmanae, Kokoda rainforest frog
• Cophixalus clapporum
• Cophixalus cryptotympanum, Zweifel’s rainforest frog
• Cophixalus cupricarenus
• Cophixalus daymani, Dayman rainforest frog
• Cophixalus desticans
• Cophixalus interruptus
• Cophixalus iovaorum
• Cophixalus kaindiensis, Kaindi rainforest frog
• Cophixalus kethuk
• Cophixalus linnaeus
• Cophixalus melanops
• Cophixalus misimae, Misima rainforest frog
• Cophixalus nexipus
• Cophixalus nubicola, Michael rainforest frog
• Cophixalus parkeri, Parker’s rainforest frog
• Cophixalus phaeobalius
• Cophixalus pipilans, sempi rainforest frog
• Cophixalus pulchellus, pretty rainforest frog
• Cophixalus riparius, Wilhelm rainforest frog
• Cophixalus shellyi, Shelly’s rainforest frog
• Cophixalus sphagnicola, Morobe rainforest frog
• Cophixalus tagulensis, Tagula rainforest frog
• Cophixalus tenuidactylus
• Cophixalus timidus, Simpson rainforest frog
• Cophixalus tomaiodactylus
• Cophixalus variabilis, Pekopekowana rainforest frog
• Cophixalus verecundus, Myola rainforest frog
• Cophixalus verrucosus, Oroke rainforest frog
• Cophixalus viridis, green rainforest frog
• Cophixalus wempi
• Copiula annanoreenae, Anna Noreen’s Mehely frog
• Copiula fistulans, Lae Mehely frog
• Copiula lennarti, Lennart’s Mehely frog
• Copiula minor, Milne Bay Mehely frog
• Copiula oxyrhina, Misima Mehely frog
• Genyophryne thomsoni, Thomson’s toothless frog
• Hylophorbus atrifasciatus
• Hylophorbus infulata
• Hylophorbus proekes, Richard’s Mawatta frog
• Hylophorbus rainerguentheri, Huon Mawatta frog
• Hylophorbus richardsi
• Hylophorbus sigridae, Sigrid’s Mawatta frog
• Liophryne allisoni, Morobe land frog
• Liophryne dentata, Alotau land frog
• Liophryne magnitympanum
• Liophryne miniafia
• Liophryne rhododactyla, Owen Stanley land frog
• Liophryne rubra, ruddy land frog
• Liophryne similis, Myola land frog
• Mantophryne axanthogaster
• Mantophryne insignis
• Mantophryne louisiadensis, Louisiade Archipelago frog
• Mantophryne menziesi, Iarowari school frog
• Metamagnusia slateri, Slater’s callulops frog
• Oreophryne albomaculata, speckled cross frog
• Oreophryne ampelos
• Oreophryne anamiatoi
• Oreophryne anser
• Oreophryne anthonyi, Anthony’s cross frog
• Oreophryne aurora
• Oreophryne banshee
• Oreophryne brachypus, Gazelle cross frog
• Oreophryne brunnea
• Oreophryne cameroni
• Oreophryne curator, Minder’s cross frog
• Oreophryne equus
• Oreophryne ezra
• Oreophryne flavomaculata
• Oreophryne gagneorum
• Oreophryne geislerorum, Madang cross frog
• Oreophryne geminus, twin cross frog
• Oreophryne graminus
• Oreophryne hypsiops, sempi cross frog
• Oreophryne inornata, dull cross frog
• Oreophryne insulana, Goodenough cross frog
• Oreophryne kampeni, Moroka cross frog
• Oreophryne lemur
• Oreophryne loriae, Port Moresby cross frog
• Oreophryne matawan
• Oreophryne meliades
• Oreophryne notata, Ialibu cross frog
• Oreophryne oviprotector
• Oreophryne parkopanorum
• Oreophryne penelopeia
• Oreophryne philosylleptoris
• Oreophryne phoebe
• Oreophryne picticrus
• Oreophryne pseudunicolor
• Oreophryne streiffeleri
• Oreophryne terrestris, terrestrial cross frog
• Oreophryne wolterstorffi, Wolterstorff’s cross frog
• Oxydactyla alpestris, Gomgale land frog
• Oxydactyla coggeri, Kaironk land frog
• Oxydactyla crassa, Papua land frog
• Oxydactyla stenodactyla, Piunde-Aunde land frog
• Paedophryne amauensis
• Paedophryne dekot
• Paedophryne kathismaphlox
• Paedophryne oyatabu
• Paedophryne swiftorum
• Paedophryne verrucosa
• Xenorhina arboricola
• Xenorhina brachyrhyncha
• Xenorhina fuscigula, Kaironk fanged frog
• Xenorhina huon, Morobe fanged frog
• Xenorhina mehelyi, Mehely’s fanged frog
• Xenorhina subcrocea, Lae fanged frog
• Xenorhina tillacki, Tillack’s snouted frog
• Xenorhina tumulus, Madang fanged frog
• Xenorhina zweifeli, Zweifel’s fanged frog

Myobatrachidae[edit]

Ranidae[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]