Mantidactylus albofrenatus (Müller, 1892)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Mantellinae > Genus: Mantidactylus > Species: Mantidactylus albofrenatus

Rana albofrenata Müller, 1892, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 10: 197. Holotype: NHMB 792 according to Forcart, 1946, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 57: 130. Type locality: "Madagascar".

Mantidactylus albofrenatusBoulenger, 1895, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 15: 450. Mocquard, 1902, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 9, 4: 18.

Rhacophorus albofrenatusMocquard, 1901, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 7: 254.

Mantidactylus (Mantidactylus) albofrenatusAhl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 34.

Mantidactylus (Hylobatrachus) albofrenatusDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 312. .

Mantidactylus (Chonomantis) albofrenatusGlaw and Vences, 1994, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 2: 401.

Mantidactylus (Chonomantis) albofrenatusVences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 29. Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 3.

English Names

Eastern Madagascar Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 101).

Distribution

An'Ala and Andasibe regions of eastern Madagascar, 840-915 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

Prior to the revision by Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 236-253, in the Mantidactylus (Hylobatrachus) albofrenatus group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 312. Vences and Glaw, 2004, J. Nat. Hist., London, 38: 94-97, and Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 242-243, provided accounts.

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