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Online Publication Date: 01 May 2005

New Species of Albericus (Anura: Microhylidae) from Eastern New Guinea

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Page Range: 312 – 319
DOI: 10.1643/CH-04-093R1
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Abstract

We describe a new species of Albericus from Mt. Shungol in the Herzog Mountains at the north end of the Owen Stanley terrane of Papua New Guinea. The new species differs from all other known species of the genus in its rapid peeping call and in having the tympana hidden in males. It can be further distinguished from particular congeners in a variety of morphometric variables. The new species inhabits lowland hill forest, was moderately common where found, and is only known from the slopes of Mt. Shungol.

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 Fig. 1. 
 Fig. 1. 

(A) Palmar view of hand, (B) plantar view of foot, (C) side of head, and (D) venter of Albericus exclamitans holotype (BPBM 18319)

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Portraits of Albericus exclamitans paratypes (A) BPBM 18317, male, and (B) BPBM 18328, female, from 750–780 m, NW slope Mt. Shungol, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Photographs by F. Kraus

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Call characteristics of Albericus exclamitans, holotype (BPBM 18319), (A) waveform of an eight-note sequence recorded at 2005 hrs on 19 October 2003 at 750 m elevation, NW slope of Mt. Shungol, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Air temperature was 21.4 C; (B) spectrogram of the preceding call. The power spectrum is shown to the left of the spectrogram. Recording by F. Kraus.

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Map of east-central New Guinea, showing the type locality of Albericus exclamitans along the Dunch River (star) and the population at Wagau (open circle).

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Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817. (FK) fkraus@hawaii.edu. Send reprint requests to FK

Accepted: 10 Dec 2004
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