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Rhombophryne matavy D'Cruze, Köhler, Vences, and Glaw, 2010
Rhombophryne matavy D'Cruze, Köhler, Vences, and Glaw, 2010, Herpetologica, 66: 183. Holotype: ZSM 1628/2008, by original designation. Type locality: "rainforest (12° 27′ 46″ S, 49° 13′ 24″ E, 482 m above sea level), Forêt d’Ambre Special Reserve, Antsiranana Province, northern Madagascar".
Plethodontohyla matavy — Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 140.
Rhombophryns matavy — Scherz, Vences, Rakotoarison, Andreone, Köhler, Glaw, and Crottini, 2016, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 100: 375.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Forêt d’Ambre Special Reserve, Antsiranana Province, northern Madagascar, 482 m elevation).
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Madagascar
Endemic: Madagascar
Comment
The sister species of Rhombophryne testudo according to the original publication. Tu, Yang, Liang, and Zhang, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 126: 89, and Portik, Streicher, and Wiens, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 188 (107907): 66, suggested that this species is imbedded within Plethodontohyla but refrained from making the taxonomic adjustment due to the possibility of misidentification of the tissue vouchers. In the Rhombophryne testudo species group of Belluardo, Scherz, Santos, Andreone, Antonelli, Glaw, Muñoz-Pajares, Randrianirina, Raselimanana, Vences, and Crottini, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2039320): 1–13.
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