Mantidactylus grandidieri Mocquard, 1895

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

Mantidactylus grandidieri Mocquard, 1895, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 8, 7: 105. Syntypes: MNHNP 1883.580 and 1892.256, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 49; syntypes are MNHNP 1883.580 and 1895.255 according to Blommers-Schlösser, 1979, Beaufortia, 29: 7, and Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 258. Type locality: "Madagascar . . . . côte Est".

Rana pigra Mocquard, 1900, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 9, 2: 109, also also Mocquard, 1900, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 6: 347. Holotype: MNHNP 1899.410, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 50. Type locality: "forêt d'Ikongo", Madagascar. Synonymy (with Mantidactylus grandidieri) by Blommers-Schlösser, 1979, Beaufortia, 29: 7. Synonymy (with Rana guttulata) by Boulenger, 1918, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1918: 258, and Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 256. Synonymy with Mantidactylus grandidieri by Rancilhac, Bruy, Scherz, Pereira Silva, Preick, Straube, Lyra, Ohler, Streicher, Andreone, Crottini, Hutter, Randrianantoandro, Rakotoarison, Glaw, Hofreiter, and Vences, 2020, J. Nat. Hist., London, 54: 87. 

Mantidactylus piger — Mocquard, 1901, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 7: 255.

Mantidactylus (Mantidactylus) grandidieri — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 14; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 313; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 3.

English Names

Grandidier's Madagascar Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 101).

Distribution

Northeastern third of Madagascar, except for the far north. 

Comment

Placed in the synonymy of Mantidactylus guttulatus by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 18. This was subsequently rejected by Blommers-Schlösser, 1979, Beaufortia, 29: 7. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 230-231, provided an account and noted a similar unnamed species from northeastern Madagascar. Rancilhac, Bruy, Scherz, Pereira Silva, Preick, Straube, Lyra, Ohler, Streicher, Andreone, Crottini, Hutter, Randrianantoandro, Rakotoarison, Glaw, Hofreiter, and Vences, 2020, J. Nat. Hist., London, 54: 87–118, discussed the systematics and the range. 

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