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Mantidactylus bellyi Mocquard, 1895
Mantidactylus bellyi Mocquard, 1895, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 8, 7: 126. Holotype: MNHNP 1893.240, according to Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 36; given incorrectly as 1893.420 by Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 48. Type locality: "montagne d'Ambre", Madagascar.
Mantidactylus (Mantidactylus) bellyi — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 19.
Mantidactylus (Brygoomantis) bellyi — Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 28. Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 3.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Northern Madagascar.
Comment
Resurrected from the synonymy of Mantidactylus curtus by Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 28, and Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 249. Synonymy with Mantidactylus ulcerosus by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 36. Considered subsequently to be a synonym of Mantidactylus curtus by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 244, and Glaw and Vences, 1992, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar: 277. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 232-233, provided an account. Rasolonjatovo, Scherz, Schmidt, Glos, Rakotoarison, Raselimanana, and Vences, 2022, PLoS One, 17(3: e0263764): 1–28, reported on population diversification in mtDNA, morphology, bioacoustics, and ecology.
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