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''Cornufer'' is a genus 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 ...
s 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 has been greatly expanded by Brown, et al. (2015) to include most
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n frogs 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 ...
. Species are found in
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and
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— in
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,
Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...
,
New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...
, and in the
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, Bismarck, and
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...
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Species

There are currently at least 50 extant species in this genus. * ''
Cornufer acrochordus ''Cornufer acrochordus'', also known as the Bougainville wrinkled ground frog, is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands archipelago and occurs on Bougainville (Papua New Guinea), Choiseul, and ...
'' (Brown, 1965) * '' Cornufer aculeodactylus'' (Brown, 1952) * ''
Cornufer adiastolus ''Cornufer adiastolus'' is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae, endemic to New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that co ...
'' (Brown, Richards, Sukumaran, and Foufopoulos, 2006) * ''
Cornufer admiraltiensis ''Cornufer admiraltiensis'' is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the e ...
'' (Richards, Mack & Austin, 2007) * '' Cornufer akarithymus'' (Brown & Tyler, 1968) * ''
Cornufer batantae ''Cornufer batantae'' is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. It is endemic to West Papua, Indonesia, and is known from two islands near the New Guinean mainland, Batanta and Waigeo. There are also unconfirmed records from Yapen an ...
'' (Zweifel, 1969) * '' Cornufer bimaculatus'' (Günther, 1999) * '' Cornufer boulengeri'' (Boettger, 1892) * ''
Cornufer browni ''Cornufer browni'' is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. 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 me ...
'' (Allison & Kraus, 2001) * '' Cornufer bufoniformis'' (Boulenger, 1884) * ''
Cornufer bufonulus ''Cornufer bufonulus'' is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. It is endemic to the Nakanai Mountains on New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea. This frog burrows into the leaf litter Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litte ...
'' (Kraus and Allison, 2007) * ''
Cornufer caesiops ''Cornufer caesiops'' is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. It is endemic to the Nakanai Mountains on New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an isl ...
'' (Kraus and Allison, 2009) * ''
Cornufer cheesmanae ''Cornufer cheesmanae'' is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. It is Endemism, endemic to New Guinea and found in the Cyclops Mountains (Papua (province), Papua, Indonesia) and Bewani Mountains (Papua New Guinea). The Specific name ...
'' (Parker, 1940) * ''
Cornufer citrinospilus ''Cornufer citrinospilus'' is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. It is endemic to the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, and is only known from the Nakanai Mountains of East New Britain Province. The specific name ''citrino ...
'' (Brown, Richards, and Broadhead, 2013) * '' Cornufer cryptotis'' (Günther, 1999) * '' Cornufer custos'' (Richards, Oliver, and Brown, 2015) * ''
Cornufer desticans ''Cornufer desticans'' is an arboreal frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. Scientists have seen it in two places: Barora Island and Choiseul Island, both in the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Pr ...
'' (Brown & Richards, 2008) * '' Cornufer elegans'' (Brown and Parker, 1970) * ''
Cornufer exedrus ''Cornufer exedrus'' is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae endemic to Papua New Guinea. It has been observed between 1500 and 1700 meters above sea level in the Nakanai Mountains in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, offici ...
'' (Travers, Richards, Broadhead, and Brown, 2018) * '' Cornufer gigas'' (Brown and Parker, 1970) * ''
Cornufer gilliardi ''Cornufer gilliardi'', commonly known as Gilliard's wrinkled ground frog, is a species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. It is endemic to the Whiteman Ranges of New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea). The specific name ''gil ...
'' (Zweifel, 1960) * '' Cornufer guentheri'' (Boulenger, 1884) * '' Cornufer guppyi'' (Boulenger, 1884) * '' Cornufer hedigeri'' (Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015) * '' Cornufer heffernani'' (Kinghorn, 1928) * '' Cornufer latro'' (Richards, Mack & Austin, 2007) * '' Cornufer macrops'' (Brown, 1965) * '' Cornufer macrosceles'' (Zweifel, 1975) * '' Cornufer magnus'' (Brown & Menzies, 1979) * '' Cornufer malukuna'' (Brown and Webster, 1969) * '' Cornufer mamusiorum'' (Foufopoulos and Brown, 2004) * '' Cornufer manus'' (Kraus and Allison, 2009) * '' Cornufer mediodiscus'' (Brown and Parker, 1970) * '' Cornufer mimicus'' (Brown & Tyler, 1968) * '' Cornufer minutus'' (Brown and Parker, 1970) * '' Cornufer montanus'' (Brown and Parker, 1970) * '' Cornufer myersi'' (Brown, 1949) * '' Cornufer nakanaiorum'' (Brown, Foufopoulos, and Richards, 2006) * '' Cornufer neckeri'' (Brown & Myers, 1949) * '' Cornufer nexipus'' (Zweifel, 1975) * '' Cornufer opisthodon'' (Boulenger, 1884) * '' Cornufer paepkei'' (Günther, 2015) * '' Cornufer papuensis'' (Meyer, 1875) * '' Cornufer parilis'' (Brown & Richards, 2008) * '' Cornufer parkeri'' (Brown, 1965) * '' Cornufer pelewensis'' (Peters, 1867) * '' Cornufer punctatus'' (Peters & Doria, 1878) * '' Cornufer schmidti'' (Brown & Tyler, 1968) * '' Cornufer solomonis'' (Boulenger, 1884) * '' Cornufer sulcatus'' (Kraus and Allison, 2007) * '' Cornufer trossulus'' (Brown and Myers, 1949) * '' Cornufer vertebralis'' (Boulenger, 1887) * '' Cornufer vitianus'' (Duméril, 1853) * '' Cornufer vitiensis'' (Girard, 1853) * '' Cornufer vogti'' (Hediger, 1934) * '' Cornufer weberi'' (Schmidt, 1932) * '' Cornufer wolfi'' (Sternfeld, 1920) * '' Cornufer wuenscheorum'' (Günther, 2006)


References


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Ceratobatrachidae Amphibian genera Taxa named by Johann Jakob von Tschudi {{Ceratobatrachidae-stub