Gold in the mountains: Striking new species of Papuascincus (Sphenomorphini: Scincidae) from New Guinea by Alex Slavenko, Stephen J. Richards, Stephen C. Donnellan, Allen Allison, Paul M. Oliver

“…Abstract Skinks are the most diverse component of the reptile fauna in the mountains of New Guinea and many seemingly specialised high-elevation species remain undescribed. …”
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Description of a new Xenorhina species (Anura, Microhylidae) from northwestern Papua New Guinea by Rainer Günther, Chris Dahl, Stephen J. Richards

“…Description of this species brings to 41 the number of Xenorhina known from New Guinea and surrounding islands.…”
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Litoria aplini sp. nov., a new species of treefrog (Pelodryadidae) from Papua New Guinea. In Papers in Honour of Ken Aplin, ed. Julien Louys, Sue O’Connor, and Kristofer M.... by Stephen J. Richards, Stephen C. Donnellan

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Mountain colonisation, miniaturisation and ecological evolution in a radiation of direct-developing New Guinea Frogs (Choerophryne, Microhylidae) by Paul M. Oliver, Amy Iannella, Stephen J. Richards, Michael S.Y. Lee

“…Here we investigate the evolution of montane endemism, ecology and body size in a clade of direct-developing frogs (Choerophryne, Microhylidae) from New Guinea. Methods Phylogenetic relationships were estimated from a mitochondrial molecular dataset using Bayesian and maximum likelihood approaches. …”
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A new large Oreophryne species from the mountains of Papua Province, Indonesian New Guinea (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) by Rainer Günther, Djoko T. Iskandar, Stephen J. Richards

“…The microhylid genus Oreophryne reaches its greatest diversity in the New Guinea region, where more than 60 species have been documented to date. …”
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A new species of insular treefrog in the Litoria thesaurensis species group from the Nakanai Mountains, New Britain, Papua New Guinea by Stephen J. Richards, Paul M. Oliver

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Another giant species of the microhylid frog genus Cophixalus Boettger, 1892 from the mountains of Papua New Guinea and first records of procoracoids in the genus by Rainer Günther, Chris Dahl, Stephen J. Richards

“…A new arboreal species of the microhylid genus Cophixalus Boettger, 1892 is described from montane rainforest on Papua New Guinea’s central cordillera. With a male SUL exceeding 44.0 mm, the new species is among the largest members of the genus; the only other Papuan species known to reach this size is C. riparius Zweifel, 1962. …”
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A new species of torrent-breeding treefrog (Pelodryadidae: Litoria) from the mountains of Papua, Indonesia, with new records and observations of Litoria dorsivena (Tyler, 1968) by Paul M. Oliver, Djoko T. Iskandar, Stephen J. Richards

“…The mountains of New Guinea are home to species-rich but poorly understood communities of stream or torrent-breeding pelodryadid treefrogs. …”
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Melanesia holds the world’s most diverse and intact insular amphibian fauna by Paul M. Oliver, Deborah S. Bower, Peter J. McDonald, Fred Kraus, Jennifer Luedtke, Kelsey Neam, Louise Hobin, Alienor L. M. Chauvenet, Allen Allison, Evy Arida, Simon Clulow, Rainer Günther, Elizah Nagombi, Burhan Tjaturadi, Scott L. Travers, Stephen J. Richards

“…Melanesia, centred on the vast tropical island of New Guinea, is shown to have the most diverse and intact insular frog fauna in the world.…”
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