Guibemantis fotsitenda Koppetsch, Pabijan, Hutter, Köhler, Gehring, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Scherz, Vieites, Glaw, and Vences, 2023

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Mantellinae > Genus: Guibemantis > Species: Guibemantis fotsitenda

Guibemantis fotsitenda Koppetsch, Pabijan, Hutter, Köhler, Gehring, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Scherz, Vieites, Glaw, and Vences, 2023, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 73: 424. Holotype: ZSM 292/2005, by original designation. Type locality: "‘Camp Mantella’ in Marojejy National Park (14.43767°S, 49.77555°E, 481 m a.s.l.), Sava Region, northeastern Madagascar". https://zoobank.org/89025EFB-775F-4EF5-8745-9E17DCCC1794 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Reliably known from two sites in northern Madagascar: (1) the type locality Marojejy (Camp Mantella, at low elevation), and (2) a site between Andrakata and Andapa also located at rather low elevation; individuals from (3) Ambodivoangy at the north-eastern edge of the Makira Reserve, at ca. 30 m elevation are provisionally assigned to this species based on evidence from nuclear genes, despite their assignment to Guibemantis razandry based on mitochondrial DNA.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

Comparative morphology, molecular markers, and advertisement call of this member of the Guibemantis liber complex detailed in the original publication. 

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