Journal article

Publication year: 2010

Pages: 245-256

Journal: Zoosystematics and Evolution

Volume number: 86

Issue number: 2

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/zoos.201000007

Publisher: Pensoft Publishers

Abstract: 

Based on morphological, anatomical and molecular traits, a new monotypic
genus of the Microhylidae is described. One new species of the new
genus was discovered in the Fakfak Mountains, northwestern corner of the
Bomberai Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia. The new taxon, Oninia senglaubi,
is a symphignathine member of the subfamily Asterophryinae and differs
from all other symphignathine species of the Australopapuan herpetofauna
by its extremely small size (snout‐urostyle length less than 20 mm).
The advertisement call of the new taxon consists of a series of short
peeps and these were uttered from small holes in the ground. According
to external morphology and osteological characters, it is most closely
related to Xenorhina, but according to molecular data (mitochondrial DNA), it is most closely related to the genera Asterophrys, Metamagnusia, and Pseudocallulops.

Harvard Citation style: Günther, R., Stelbrink, B. and von Rintelen, T. (2010) Oninia senglaubi, another new genus and species of frog (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) from New Guinea, Zoosystematics and Evolution, 86(2), pp. 245-256. https://doi.org/10.1002/zoos.201000007

APA Citation style: Günther, R., Stelbrink, B., & von Rintelen, T. (2010). Oninia senglaubi, another new genus and species of frog (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) from New Guinea. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 86(2), 245-256. https://doi.org/10.1002/zoos.201000007