Mantidactylus
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| Genus: | Mantidactylus Boulenger, 1895
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Mantidactylus is a frog genus in the mantellid subfamily Mantellinae. This genus is restricted to Madagascar. The genus is divided into several subgenera that form monophyletic genetic clusters and are ecologically similar.
Taxonomy
Mantidactylus was erected by Boulenger in 1895 with the type species Rana guttulata.[1][2] For a long time the genus contained a wide variety of mostly terrestrial Madagascan frogs, that were divided into species groups[3] and/or subgenera. Several of these groups were subsequently erected to genus level: Blommersia, Boehmantis, Gephyromantis, Guibemantis, Spinomantis and Wakea.[4] Today, four subgenera remain within the genus Mantidactylus:
- Mantidactylus Boulenger, 1895
- Hylobatrachus Laurent, 1943
- Brygoomantis Dubois, 1992
- Ochthomantis Glaw & Vences, 1994
- Chonomantis Glaw & Vences, 1994
- Maitsomantis Glaw & Vences, 2006
Species
New species of Mantidactylus are described at a rate of a few per year on average. The following list contains all described species as of 5 May 2016, arranged by subgenus:
- Mantidactylus
- Mantidactylus guttulatus (Boulenger, 1881)
- Mantidactylus grandidieri Mocquard, 1895
- Mantidactylus ulcerosus (Boettger, 1880)
- Mantidactylus bellyi Mocquard, 1895
- Mantidactylus noralottae Mercurio & Andreone, 2007
- Mantidactylus betsileanus (Boulenger, 1882)
- Mantidactylus curtus (Boulenger, 1882)
- Mantidactylus bourgati Guibé, 1974
- Mantidactylus madecassus (Millot & Guibé, 1950)
- Mantidactylus pauliani Guibé, 1974
- Mantidactylus alutus (Peracca, 1893)
- Mantidactylus biporus (Boulenger, 1889)
- Mantidactylus tricinctus (Guibé, 1947)
- Mantidactylus albofrenatus (Müller, 1892)
- Mantidactylus paidroa Bora, Ramilijoana, Raminosoa & Vences, 2011
- Mantidactylus charlotteae Vences & Glaw, 2004
- Mantidactylus zipperi Vences & Glaw, 2004
- Mantidactylus aerumnalis (Peracca, 1893)
- Mantidactylus melanopleura (Mocquard, 1901)
- Mantidactylus opiparis (Peracca, 1893)
- Mantidactylus brevipalmatus Ahl, 1929
- Mantidactylus delormei Angel, 1938
- Mantidactylus ambreensis Mocquard, 1895
- Mantidactylus femoralis (Boulenger, 1882)
- Mantidactylus mocquardi Angel, 1929
- Mantidactylus zolitschka Glaw & Vences, 2004
- Mantidactylus majori Boulenger, 1896
- Mantidactylus argenteus Methuen, 1920
- Mantidactylus cowanii (Boulenger, 1882)
- Mantidactylus lugubris (Duméril, 1853)
References
- ^ Boulenger, George Albert (1895). "On a genus of frog peculiar to Madagascar". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6. 15: 450.
- ^ Ahl, E. (1931). "Amphibia, Anura III, Polypedatidae". Das Tierreich. 55: 10.
- ^ Blommers-Schlösser, R. M. A. (1979). "Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs I. Mantellinae (Ranidae)". Beaufortia. 29: 1–77.
- ^ Glaw, Frank; Vences, Miguel (2006). "Phylogeny and genus-level classification of mantellid frogs (Amphibia, Anura)". Organisms, Diversity & Evolution. 6 (2006): 236–253. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2005.12.001.
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