SPHENOPHRYNE - American Museum of Natural History

Contents
Abstract ....................................................................... 4
Introduction .................................................................... 4
Acknowledgments ............................................................ 5
Methods ..................................................................... 6
Systematics .................................................................... 8
Genera ...................................................................... 8
Key to Genera ............................................................... 8
Genus Austrochaperina Fry .................................................. 9
New Name Combinations for Australian Species ............................... 9
Key to Austrochaperina .................................................... 10
Austrochaperina adamantina, new species .................................. 11
Austrochaperina aquilonia, new species .................................... 12
Austrochaperina archboldi, new species .................................... 14
Austrochaperina basipalmata (van Kampen) ................................ 15
Austrochaperina blumi, new species ....................................... 20
Austrochaperina brevipes (Boulenger) ..................................... 24
Austrochaperina derongo, new species ..................................... 27
Austrochaperina gracilipes Fry ........................................... 32
Austrochaperina guttata, new species ...................................... 33
Austrochaperina hooglandi (Zweifel) ...................................... 35
Austrochaperina kosarek, new species ..................................... 38
Austrochaperina macrorhyncha (van Kampen) .............................. 39
Austrochaperina mehelyi (Parker) ......................................... 43
Austrochaperina novaebritanniae, new species .............................. 45
Austrochaperina palmipes (Zweifel) ....................................... 46
Austrochaperina parkeri, new species ...................................... 49
Austrochaperina polysticta (Méhely¨) ....................................... 50
Austrochaperina rivularis, new species ..................................... 52
Austrochaperina yelaensis, new species .................................... 54
Genus Liophryne Boulenger ................................................ 55
Key to Liophryne .......................................................... 56
Liophryne allisoni, new species ........................................... 58
Liophryne dentata (Tyler and Menzies) .................................... 62
Liophryne rhododactyla Boulenger ........................................ 63
Liophryne rubra, new species ............................................. 65
Liophryne schlaginhaufeni (Wandolleck) ................................... 68
Liophryne similis, new species ............................................ 71
Genus Oxydactyla van Kampen ............................................. 74
Key to Oxydactyla ......................................................... 75
Oxydactyla alpestris, new species ......................................... 75
Oxydactyla brevicrus van Kampen ........................................ 79
Oxydactyla coggeri, new species .......................................... 80
Oxydactyla crassa (Zweifel) .............................................. 82
Oxydactyla stenodactyla, new species ...................................... 84
Genus Sphenophryne Peters and Doria ....................................... 88
Sphenophryne cornuta Peters and Doria .................................... 88
Nomina Dubia ............................................................ 93
Morphology ................................................................... 94
Body Form and Proportions ................................................ 94
Ontogenetic Change in Proportions .......................................... 99
Osteology ............................................................... 100
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