Boophis solomaso Vallan, Vences, and Glaw, 2003

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

Boophis solomaso Vallan, Vences, and Glaw, 2003, Amphibia-Reptilia, 24: 311. Holotype: NHM 1046010, by original designation. Type locality: "at a site called Analambalotra near Ambavaniasy, 18° 57′ 36″ S, 48° 30′ 00″ E, about 880 m elevation, Moramango Fivondronana, Toamasina Province, central eastern Madagascar".

Boophis (Boophis) solomasoGlaw 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

Known only from the type locality (near Ambavaniasy, Moramanga Fivondronana, Toamasina Province, Madagascar).

Comment

In the Boophis rappiodes group according to the original publication. In the more exclusive Boophis mandraka group of Vences and Glaw, 2005, Afr. J. Herpetol., 54: 79, and Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 240. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 178-179, provided an account.

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