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Boophis occidentalis Glaw and Vences, 1994
Boophis albilabris occidentalis Glaw and Vences, 1994, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 2: 90. Holotype: ZFMK 57383, by original designation. Type locality: "Isalo National Park (Namazaha valley, forest ca. 4 km W of Ranohira), western central Madagascar".
Boophis occidentalis — Andreone, Vences, Guarino, Glaw, and Randrianirina, 2002, J. Zool., London, 257: 425.
Boophis (Boophis) occidentalis — Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 242, by implication; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 1.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Widely separated records in western and north-central Madagascar, 0-800 m elevation.
Comment
Glaw and Vences, 1994, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 2: 91, suggested that if call data were correct that Boophis albilabris occidentalis should probably be considered a distinct species. Andreone, Vences, Guarino, Glaw, and Randrianirina, 2002, J. Zool., London, 257: 425-438, confirmed that Boophis occidentalis is a distinct species, and described larvval morphology. See Cadle, 1995, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 115: 313-345, for discussion of sexual dimorphism. See comment under Boophis albilbris. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 166-167, provided an account, considered this species to be in the Boophis albilabris group, and noted a similar but unnamed species from Berara forest, northwestern Madagascar (now named Boophis tsilomaro). See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 624.
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