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Giant Fiji ground frog

Platymantis megabotoniviti
Temporal range: Pleistocene–Holocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ceratobatrachidae
Genus: Platymantis
Species: P. megabotoniviti
Binomial name
Platymantis megabotoniviti
Worthy, 2001

Platymantis megabotoniviti is an extinct species of frog in the family Ceratobatrachidae. The species was described from bones of late Quaternary age from caves on Viti Levu, Fiji. P. megabotoniviti is much larger than the other two species of Platymantis known from Fiji, P. vitianus and P. vitiensis.



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