Mantidactylus ambreensis Mocquard, 1895

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Mantellinae > Genus: Mantidactylus > Species: Mantidactylus ambreensis

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.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Low and mid-altitude forests of Northwestern and Northern Madagascar, with elevational ranges between 200 to 1150 m. This species is found as far north as Montagne d’Ambre and across humid forests in the northern highlands such as north as Montagne d’Ambre and across humid forests in the northern highlands such as Manongarivo, Tsaratanana, Andramanalana, and Sorata; and extending to the northern Manongarivo, Tsaratanana, Andramanalana, and Sorata; and extending to the northern limit of the High Plateau at Irony River and Ambohibola Forest. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

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. Rabibisoa, Welt, and Raxworthy, 2023, Animals, 13(17: 2800): 1–67, provided a detailed account covering relevant literature, morphology, and molecular markers and provided a dot map for the species. Dias, Vera Candioti, Wassersug, Lukas, Targino, Glos, Wheeler, Hertwig, Crottini, and Haas, 2024, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 202 (2:  zlae127): 1–13, reported on larval buccopharyngeal anatomy. 

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