Gephyromantis boulengeri Methuen, 1920

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Mantellinae > Genus: Gephyromantis > Species: Gephyromantis boulengeri

Gephyromantis boulengeri Methuen, 1920 "1919", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1919: 351. Holotype: TMP 10876 (formerly 1013), according to Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 202. Type locality: "Folohy, East Madagascar".

Rhacophorus gephyromantis Ahl, 1929 "1928", Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 14: 480. Replacement name for Gephyromantis boulengeri Methuen, 1920, preoccupied by Rhacophorus boulengeri Peracca, 1892.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) gephyromantisAhl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 195.

Mantidactylus boulengeriBlommers-Schlösser, 1979, Beaufortia, 29: 28; Glaw and Vences, 1992, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar: 276.

Mantidactylus (Gephyromantis) boulengeriDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 312.

Gephyromantis (Gephyromantis) boulengeriVences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 21; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 2..

English Names

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

Distribution

Central-eastern to northeastern Madagascar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

Prior to the revision of Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 236-253, in the Mantidactylus redimitus group of Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 195, and in the Mantidactylus (Gephyromantis) redimitus group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 312. See Mantidactylus decaryi account. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 210-211, provided an account. In the Gephyromantis boulengeri complex of Miralles, Köhler, Glaw, Wollenberg Valero, Crottini, Rosa, Du Preez, Gehring, Vieites, Ratsoavina, and Vences, 2023, Salamandra, 59: 1–41, who redelimited the species, provided morphological and molecular markers, as well as call information, and a dot map.  

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