Gephyromantis tschenki (Glaw and Vences, 2001)

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

Mantidactylus (Phylacomantis) tschenki Glaw and Vences, 2001, Spixiana, München, 24: 181. Holotype: ZSM 936/2000, by original designation. Type locality: "along the road between Ambatolahy and Ranomafana, south-eastern Madagascar".

Gephyromantis tschenkiVences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 19.

Gephyromantis (Duboimantis) tschenkiGlaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 244, by implication; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 2.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type localit (southeastern Madagascar).

Comment

Most similar to Mantidactylus cornutus according to the original publication. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 224-225, provided an account. Randrianiaina, Wollenberg, Hiobiarilanto, Strauss, Glos, and Vences, 2011, J. Nat. Hist., London, 45: 2871–2900, described larval morphology.

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