''Cornufer browni'' is a species of

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...

in the family

Ceratobatrachidae The Ceratobatrachidae are a family of frogs found in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Philippines, Palau, Fiji, New Guinea, and the Admiralty Islands, Admiralty, Bismarck Islands, Bismarck, and Solomon Islands (archipelago), Solomon Islands. Tax ...

. It is

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Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

. It has been observed between 100 and 200 meters above sea level and between 1100 and 1300 meters above sea level. The adult male frog measures 23.4 mm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 26.7 mm. This frog has large climbing disks on the toes of its front and hind feet. The skin of the dorsum is bronze or gray-brown in color with light marks. Some individuals have a lone down the middle of the back or black marks on the back. The flanks have some red color. The frog's face is dark brown or black in color with some brown-white marks. There is black color on the legs and near the vent. The ventrum is yellow-gray or gray-black in color with silver marks. The iris of the eye is bronze to gold in color. Its natural

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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland

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s, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. These frogs live in primary or secondary closed-

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forest. The frog hides in leaf litter during the day and is most active after a rain. It is threatened by

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References

browni Amphibians of Papua New Guinea Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Amphibians described in 2001 {{Ceratobatrachidae-stub