Kalophrynus minusculus Iskandar, 1998 Dwarf Sticky Frog

Zug, George R., 2015, Morphology and Systematics of Kalophrynus interlineatus-pleurostigma Populations (Anura: Microhylidae: Kalophryninae) and a Taxonomy of the Genus Kalophrynus Tschudi, Asian Sticky Frogs, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 62 (5), pp. 135-190 : 170-171

Kalophrynus minusculus Iskandar, 1998 Dwarf Sticky Frog

Kalophrynus minusculus Iskandar, 1998 , The Amphibians of Java and Bali p.53 [type locality: “ Cigeunteur , Ujung Kulon, West Java ”, Indonesia] .

TYPE MATERIAL.— HOLOTYPE: Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense 367 . PARATYPES: MZB 265–66 , 375–76 , MZB 2339 , MZB 2924 , and possibly ten other specimens not designated by museum number. All specimens by original designation.

DEFINITION.— Small, adult females to 35 mm SVL (n = 1), adult males to 25 mm SVL (n = 10); head modest length NA % HeadL/ SVL; head wider than long NA % HeadW/HeadL; snout moderately broad NA % SnW/HeadL; naris closer to snout than to eye NA % NarEye/SnEye; eye moderately large NA % EyeD/HeadL; tympanum visible and smaller than eye NA % Tymp/EyeD; moderate length forelimb NA % Forarm/ SVL and forearm equal crus length NA % Forarm/CrusL; hindlimb moderately long NA % HndlL/ SVL, NA % CrusL/ SVL, and NA % CrusL/ThghL; hindfoot well developed NA % HndfL/CrusL; limb measurements not reported.

Vomerine teeth presence or absence not reported; palatal fold morphology not reported; tongue morphology not reported.

Hand and foot morphology not reported.

In life, dorsum brownish black with darker bands and stripes.

ETYMOLOGY.— The specific epithet minusculus refers to small size of adults relative to the larger K. interlineatus-pleurostigma frogs.

DISTRIBUTION.— This species appears to be fairly common on Peucang Island and on the mainland of Ujung Kulon National Park, Java . It is also reported to occur in southern Sumatra (Lampung Province) .

NATURAL HISTORY.— Kalophrynus minisculus occurs only in forest at low altitudes in West Java. Females bear 30 to 50 eggs which hatch into nonfeeding tadpoles .

COMMENTS.— Preceding information extracted from Iskander (1998).