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Stumpffia grandis Guibé, 1974
Stumpffia grandis Guibé, 1973, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 171: 1186. Holotype: MNHNP 1973.715, by original designation (lost, according to Glaw and Vences, 1992, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar: 272). Type locality: "Massif du Marojezy (1300 m)", Madagascar.
Rhombophryne grandis — Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 140; Peloso, Raxworthy, Wheeler, and Frost, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 111: 63; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 417.
Stumpffia grandis — Scherz, Vences, Rakotoarison, Andreone, Köhler, Glaw, and Crottini, 2016, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 100: 375.
English Names
Giant Stump-toed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).
Distribution
Known only from Marojejy National Park, 1300–1400 m elevation, Madagascar.
Comment
See account by Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 130-131 (as well as brief account of unnamed species from Andasibe similar to Stumpffia grandis). See account (as Stumpffia grandis) by Rakotoarison, Scherz, Glaw, Köhler, Andreone, Franzen, Glos, Hawlitschek, Jono, Mori, Ndriantsoa, Raminosoa, Riemann, Rödel, Rosa, Vieites, Crottini, and Vences, 2017, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 67: 346. Rakotoarison, Scherz, Bletz, Razafindraibe, Glaw, and Vences, 2019, Salamandra, 55: 115–123, reported on phylogeography.
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