Boophis doulioti (Angel, 1934)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Boophinae > Genus: Boophis > Species: Boophis doulioti

Rhacophorus doulioti Angel, 1934, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 59: 169. Syntypes: MNHNP 1891.356-357, by original designation and according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 52. MNHNP 1891.356 designated lectotype by Glaw and Vences, 1997, Copeia, 1997: 576. Type locality: "Morondava (Ouest de Madagascar)".

Boophis douliotiGuibé, 1947, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 19: 439.

Boophis (Sahona) douliotiGlaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 242, by implication; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 1.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Western and southern Madagascar, 0-800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

In the Boophis tephraeomystax group, according to Blommers-Schlösser, 1979, Bijdr. Dierkd., 49: 296. Removed from the synonymy of Boophis tephraeomystax by Vences and Glaw, 2002, Spixiana, München, 25: 79, where it had been placed by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 65; and Blommers-Schlösser, 1979, Bijdr. Dierkd., 49: 297, and earlier had been placed in the synonymy of Boophis crossleyi by Guibé, 1947, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 19: 439. In the Boophis tephraeomystax group of Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 1. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 146-147, provided an account. Rodriguez, Börner, Pabijan, Gehara, Haddad, and Vences, 2015, Evol. Ecol., 29: 765–785 (and supplemental data), reported on phylogeographic diversity and its causes.

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