Browsing by Author "Menzies, J. I."
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Item Systematics of Litoria arfakiana of New Guinea and sibling species (Salientia, Hylidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 2558(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1974) Menzies, J. I.; Zweifel, Richard George, 1926-The arfakiana group of the hylid genus Litoria includes three species: Litoria arfakiana (Peters and Doria); Litoria wollastoni (Boulenger), a new combination for a specific name removed from the synonymy of arfakiana; and Litoria oenicolen, new species. The first two species cannot be distinguished morphologically (although there is an average size difference), but they differ from each other and from the new species in their mating calls. The new species is highly similar to the other two in most respects of morphology, but is slightly smaller in average size and has one distinct aspect of pigmentation. Both previously described species evidently are widespread although essentially allopatric in hill and mountain country above the coastal plains of New Guinea, but precise information is scanty because of the need for information on the calls in identifying the species. The new species is known from only one locality, where it is sympatric L. wollastoni. The latter species and L. arfakiana have not been captured at the same locality, but occur within 10 miles of each other. The haploid chromosome number of n = 13 is known for wollastoni"--P. 3.Item Systematics of microhylid frogs, genus Oreophryne, from the north coast region of New Guinea. American Museum novitates ; no. 3415(New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History, 2003) Zweifel, Richard George, 1926-; Menzies, J. I.; Price, David (David S.), 1959-We discuss the taxonomic status of seven nominal species of Oreophryne described from northern New Guinea and New Britain. These include Cophixalus geislerorum Boettger (1892) and Sphenophryne biroi Méhely (1897), two of the first three species of Oreophryne described from New Guinea. Each has been a source of taxonomic confusion--the first known only from a single specimen of indefinite provenance, and the second because of the destruction of the type specimens and the indiscriminate application of the name biroi to specimens from virtually the entire length and breadth of New Guinea. We identify a well-characterized species with geislerorum and associate biroi with a species known from the vicinity of the type locality, designating a neotype to establish formally this association. We retain two species--Mehelyia affinis Wandolleck (1911) and Mehelyia lineata Wandolleck (1911)--as junior synonyms of biroi, tentatively characterize Oreophryne parkeri Loveridge (1955) and refer new specimens to the species, and describe one new species. Hylella wolterstorffi Werner (1901) by default remains a valid species of Oreophryne, now with a somewhat restricted but still indefinite type locality, and not yet well characterized morphologically. The specific identity of specimens in some samples of Oreophryne from the north coastal region of New Guinea is unclear and is likely to remain so until recordings of advertisement calls become available.