Mount Shungol

Dambi Peak {{convert|2250|ft}} is located to the South West, Snake River along the South East base, Aria and Tuoima Creeks to the North West and Wampit River to the West. Omalia and Bupa Missions are West of Mount Shungol while Wago Mission is to the East.{{cite web|last=SB 55-10 Markham (5.4 MB)|title=Series T504, U.S. Army Map Service|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/new_guinea/txu-oclc-6552576-sb55-10.jpg|work=Home > Finding Information > PCL Map Collection > New Guinea AMS Topographic Maps|publisher=University of Texas at Austin|accessdate=4 March 2014}}

A new species of Albericus from Mt. Shungol has been discovered and inhabits lowland hill forest from the slopes of Mt. Shungol.{{cite journal|author1=Fred Kraus |author2=Allen Allison |author3=M. J. Lannoo |name-list-style=amp |title=New Species of Albericus (Anura: Microhylidae) from Eastern New Guinea|journal=Copeia|date=May 2005|volume=2005|issue=2|pages=312–319|publisher=American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists|issn=0045-8511|doi=10.1643/ch-04-093r1|s2cid=85758209 }} Albericus is a genus of microhylid frogs endemic to New Guinea. These are small frogs with maximum body length around 27 mm. The genus name Albericus is the Latin form of Alberich, shape-shifting dwarf in the epic poem Nibelungenlied.{{cite journal|author1=Burton, Thomas C. |author2=Zweifel, Richard George | year=1995 | title=A new genus of genyophrynine microhylid frogs from New Guinea | issue=3129 | pages=1–7 | journal=American Museum Novitates | hdl=2246/3574 | url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/3574}}

The Cophixalus albolineatus whose habitat is the northwestern slope of Mount Shungol. Cophixalus (rainforest frogs or nursery frogs) is a genus of microhylid frogs. These are arboreal species with expanded toe-pads, endemic to Moluccan Islands, New Guinea and northeastern Queensland, Australia.{{cite web|last=Frost|first=Darrel R|title=Cophixalus albolineatus Kraus, 2012|url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Asterophryinae/Cophixalus/Cophixalus-albolineatus|work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0|publisher=American Museum of Natural History|accessdate=1 March 2014}}

Citrogramma is a genus of hoverfly of the insect family Syrphidae whose habitat is on Mount Shungol.{{cite journal|last=MENGUAL|first=XIMO|title=The flower fly genus Citrogramma Vockeroth (Diptera: Syrphidae): illustrated revision with descriptions of new species|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|date=January 2012|volume=164|issue=1|page=166|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00750.x |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251543675|accessdate=1 March 2014|doi-access=free}}

Solanum is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, including two food crops of the highest economic importance, the potato and the tomato. Hartleya Sleum (Stemonur.) is only known from Mount Shungol.{{cite journal|last=Heads|first=Michael|title=Ericaceae in Malesia: vicariance biogeography, terrane tectonics and ecology|journal=Telopea|date=2003|volume=10|issue=1|pages=311–449|url=http://rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/72726/Tel10Hea311.pdf|doi=10.7751/telopea20035621|access-date=2014-03-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110329190906/http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/72726/Tel10Hea311.pdf|archive-date=2011-03-29|url-status=dead}}

Many species of Birds-of-Paradise are endemic to the area. Among these is the brown sicklebill. The brown sicklebill (Epimachus meyeri) is a dark blue and green bird-of-paradise with highly iridescent plumages, a sickle-shaped bill, pale blue iris and brown underparts. Mount Shungol and Mount Missim (above the towns of Wau and Bulolo) comprise a centre of endemism for many bird subspecies.{{cite journal|last=Heads|first=Michael|title=Birds of paradise, vicariance biogeography and terrane tectonics in New Guinea|journal=Journal of Biogeography|date=2002|volume=29|issue=2|doi=10.1046/j.1365-2699.2002.00667|url=https://www.sciencebuff.org/content/files/science-pdf/Heads/Heads%202002%20Birds%20of%20paradise.pdf|accessdate=1 March 2014|publisher=Blackwell Science Ltd|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |issn=1365-2699|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703065425/http://www.sciencebuff.org/content/files/science-pdf/Heads/Heads%202002%20Birds%20of%20paradise.pdf|archivedate=3 July 2010}}

{{wide image|3 mile AgriculturalTrainingCentre FacingWest.jpg|800px|Mount Shungol in the background, taken from 3 Mile, Lae}}

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