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Mantidactylus ambreensis Mocquard, 1895
Mantidactylus ambreensis Mocquard, 1895, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 8, 7: 127. Holotype: MNHNP 1893.241, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 48. Type locality: "montagne d'Ambre", Madagascar.
Mantidactylus (Ochthomantis) ambreensis — Glaw and Vences, 1994, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 2: 400; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 3.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Rainforests of lowland northern Madagascar south to at least Makira.
Comment
Resurrected from the synonymy of Mantidactylus femoralis by Raxworthy and Nussbaum, 1994, Biol. Conserv., 69: 67, where it had been placed by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 26. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 246-247, provided an account. Scherz, Rasolonjatovo, Köhler, Rancilhac, Rakotoarison, Raselimanana, Ohler, Preick, Hofreiter, Glaw, and Vences, 2020, Sci. Rep. (Nature, London), 10 (19109): 1–17, redelimited the species by excluding the newly named population, Mantidactylus ambony, which differs in DNA, call, and body size. The authors also redescribed the holotype of Mantidactylus ambreensis.
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