Talk:Microhyla nepenthicola

nepenthicola vs borneensis

 * Microhyla nepenthicola is now considered a junior synonym for Microhyla borneensis. Apparently the species everybody thought as borneensis was actually another species since described as M. malang. The holonym of M. nepenthicola is however conspecific with M. borneensis -- see the comments on Amphibian Species of the World. Presumably the two papers noted in the comments -- Matsui, 2011, Zootaxa, 2814: 33-49 and Dehling, 2010, Salamandra, 46: 114-116 -- could also be used for further expansion. Microhyla borneensis is unfortunately already occupied... Perhaps it could be deleted to make way for the move since it's bot-generated and mostly bot-edited? I would rather keep the significant editing history together with the article...
 * Also the claim about being the smallest frog from the Old World is no longer true. Paedophryne amauensis from New Guinea is the current record holder with body size of 7.7 mm. The other Paedophryne-frogs might be smaller than nepenthicola/borneensis, too. 88.148.249.186 (talk) 16:42, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I've updated the article to reflect the current smallest-known-frog standings. Moving the page shouldn't be a problem and I agree with your reasoning. You clearly know your stuff so please make any improvements you feel are needed! mgiganteus1 (talk) 00:47, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Move?

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was merged. This would've been fine to move, but another user has worked on Microhyla borneensis since this request was made. I'll merge content from here so that the junior synonym redirects there. --BDD (talk) 23:24, 12 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Microhyla nepenthicola is considered a junior synonym to Microhyla borneensis, see ASW and the account for borneensis gives more information. Now, Microhyla nepenthicola was a DYK and Microhyla borneensis is bot-created without significant human contributions. Can we nuke borneensis to make way for move, or is merging the only way forward here? 88.148.249.186 (talk) 17:12, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * And see discussion in the previous section. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:27, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.