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Mantidactylus guttulatus (Boulenger, 1881)
Rana guttulata Boulenger, 1881, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 7: 360. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.25.48–52 (formerly 1880.7.15.10–12, 1881.3.29.15–16 according to Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 18); BMNH 1947.2.25.51 designated lectotype by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 256. Type locality: "Betsileo", Madagascar ; corrected to "S.E. Betsileo", Madagascar, by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 21.
Mantidactylus guttulatus — Boulenger, 1895, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 15: 450.
Mantidactylus (Mantidactylus) guttulatus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 12; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 313; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 3.
English Names
Gray Madagascar Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 101).
Distribution
Central part of eastern Madagascar.
Geographics occurrence
Natural resident: Madagascar
Endemic to the political unit: Madagascar
Comment
Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3 230–231, provided an account. Altig and McDiarmid, 2006, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 119: 418–425, described larval morphology. Schulze, Randrianiaina, Perl, Glaw, and Vences, 2016, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 11: 119–125, reported on larval morphology. Rodriguez, Börner, Pabijan, Gehara, Haddad, and Vences, 2015, Evol. Ecol., 29: 765–785 (and supplemental data), reported on phylogeographic diversity and its causes. 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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