Gephyromantis kintana Cocca, Andreone, Belluardo, Rosa, Randrianirina, Glaw, and Crottini, 2020

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

Gephyromantis (Phylacomantis) kintana Cocca, Andreone, Belluardo, Rosa, Randrianirina, Glaw, and Crottini, 2020, ZooKeys, 951: 144. Holotype: ZSM 163/2019, by original designation. Type locality: "Zahavola (Isalo, Ihorombe region, Ranohira Fivondronona, southwestern Madagascar), -22.6215361S, 45.358667E , ca. 881 m a.s.l., canyon with a narrow gallery forest laying on the edge of the border of Isalo National Park". http://zoobank.org/7E684B14-3C30-48E0-8911-2A3D4501EE94

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Southern and western portion of the Isalo Massif of south-central Madagascar, with all records currently within Isalo National Park. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 218–219, provided an account (as Gephyromantis azzurrae). See Cocca, Andreone, Belluardo, Rosa, Randrianirina, Glaw, and Crottini, 2020, ZooKeys, 951: 142–143, for the confusing, even if brief, history of a mixup of names and perceptions of lineages that required the naming of this taxon.See Scherz, Rudolph, Rakotondratsima, Ratsoavina, Crottini, Andreone, Glaw, and Vences, 2024, Zootaxa, 5446: 205–220, for review of molecular systematics, morphometrics, and a dot distribution map. 

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