Boophis narinsi Vences, Gehara, Köhler, and Glaw, 2012

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

Boophis narinsi Vences, Gehara, Köhler, and Glaw, 2012, Amphibia-Reptilia, 33: 511. Holotype: ZSM 294/2006, by original designation. Type locality: "a place locally known as Sakaroa, near Talatakely in Ranomafana National Park, south-eastern Madagascar, 21°15.928′S, 47°24.743′E, 1048 m above sea level".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Currently known only from sites within and directly adjacent to Ranomafana National Park, southeastern Madagascar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

The sister species of Boophis majori according to the original publication. Larval morphology was described as "Boophis sp. aff. major 'long calls'" by Schmidt, Strauss, Reeve, Letz, Ludewig, Neb, Pluschzick, Randrianiaina, Reckwell, Schröder, Wesolowski, and Vences, 2008, Herpetol. Notes, 1: 49–57. 

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