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Hylophorbus

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Hylophorbus is a genus of microhylid frogs endemic to New Guinea. Common name Mawatta frogs has been coined for them.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAmphibia
  4. OrderAnura
  5. FamilyMicrohylidae
Observations6
Observations recorded1,655

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
541
Family
Microhylidae
Collections
RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, BYU, LSUMZ
Recorded in
Papua New Guinea

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Asterophryinae
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Commons category
Hylophorbus
topic's main category
Category:Hylophorbus
taxon name
Hylophorbus
taxon rank
genus
taxon common name
Mawatta Frogs
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Hylophorbus is a genus of microhylid frogs endemic to New Guinea. Common name Mawatta frogs has been coined for them.

Molecular data suggest that Hylophorbus is monophyletic and that its sister taxon is Callulops.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hylophorbus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.