Cornufer hedigeri explained

Cornufer hedigeri, commonly known as the Treasury wrinkled ground frog or Solomon Islands giant treefrog, is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae, named after Henry B. Guppy who collected the holotype from the Treasury Islands.[1] It is widespread in the Solomon Islands archipelago (Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands), though it is missing from New Georgia and Makira islands.[2]

Description

Specimens of the species Cornufer hedigeri are medium-sized frogs: the holotype measured 68mm in snout–vent length. Its back is light brown or pinkish, spotted or dotted with brown, whereas it is whitish below.[1]

Cornufer hedigeri is a very common and abundant species that inhabits closed-canopy rainforest and old regrowth forest. They live in the trees, about 2m-20mm (07feet-70feetm) above the ground. It might be threatened by logging, although its ability to persist in regrown forests suggests it is relatively resilient.

Notes and References

  1. Boulenger . G. A. . George Albert Boulenger . 1884 . Diagnoses of new reptiles and batrachians from the Solomon Islands, collected and presented to the British Museum by H. B. Guppy, Esq., M.B., H.M.S. 'Lark' . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1884 . 210–213 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1884.tb02822.x.
  2. Web site: Platymantis guppyi (Boulenger, 1884) . Frost, Darrel R. . 2014 . Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 . American Museum of Natural History . 24 February 2014.