• Corpus ID: 55427274

A NEW FROG OF THE GENUS CORNUFER FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS , WITH NOTES ON THE ENDEMIC NATURE OF THE FIJIAN FROG FAUNA BY

@inproceedings{BrownANF,
  title={A NEW FROG OF THE GENUS CORNUFER FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS , WITH NOTES ON THE ENDEMIC NATURE OF THE FIJIAN FROG FAUNA BY},
  author={Walter Creighton Brown and and and ' GEORGES.MYERS and Cornufer}
}

• W. Brown, and, +1 author Cornufer
• Biology

Cornufer dorsalis Dumeril, a frog described from Java, was identified by Boulenger (1882, p. 108) with a Fijian species. Barbour (1923) makes the same identifications, but neither he nor Boulenger saw the type specimen. Van Kampen (1923, p. 239) examined Dumeril's type of dorsalis in Paris and placed it as a member of the genus or subgenus Platymantis, which some authors unite with Rana. Van Kampen points out that the locality "Java" is certainly incorrect, as, indeed, Boulenger had suspected in 1882, and he suggests that the type of C. dorsalis may have been from the Philippines. Van Kampen, having shown that "C. dorsalis" is not even generically identical with the Fijian frog, uses the earliest subsequent name based on Fijian material and calls the species Cornufer vitiensis (Girard). Boulenger (1884, pp. 211-212; 1886, pp. 53-54, pl. 11, figs. 1-2) originally recorded two species of Cornufer from the Solomons, C. guppyi Boulenger and C. solomonis Boulenger, but of these, the latter is now also referred to Platymantis (Boulenger, 1918, p. 373; Van Kampen, 1923, pp. 191-192). In 1887 (p. 337), however, Boulenger recorded "Cornufer dorsalis Dumeril" from Faro (Fauro) Island in the Solomons. Barbour (1921, p. 97) presumes that Boulenger's "C. dorsalis" was nothing but an example of C. guppyi. Thus at the present time, the genus Cornufer is represented in lists of the Solomons fauna by C. guppyi and Boulenger's doubtful record of "C. dorsalis" from Faro Island.