Mantidactylus
Mantidactylus is a frog genus in the mantellid subfamily Mantellinae. This genus is restricted to Madagascar. The genus is divided into several subgenera that form monophyletic genetic clusters and are ecologically similar.
Mantidactylus | |
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Mantidactylus guttulatus, the type species of Mantidactylus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Mantellidae |
Subfamily: | Mantellinae |
Genus: | Mantidactylus Boulenger, 1895 |
Type species | |
Rana guttulata Boulenger, 1881 | |
Diversity | |
35 species in six subgenera |
Taxonomy
Mantidactylus was erected by Boulenger in 1895 with the type species Rana guttulata.[1][2] For a long time the genus contained a wide variety of mostly terrestrial Madagascan frogs, that were divided into species groups[3] and/or subgenera. Several of these groups were subsequently erected to genus level: Blommersia, Boehmantis, Gephyromantis, Guibemantis, Spinomantis and Wakea.[4] Today, six subgenera remain within the genus Mantidactylus:
- Mantidactylus Boulenger, 1895
- Hylobatrachus Laurent, 1943
- Brygoomantis Dubois, 1992
- Ochthomantis Glaw & Vences, 1994
- Chonomantis Glaw & Vences, 1994
- Maitsomantis Glaw & Vences, 2006
Species
New species of Mantidactylus are described at a rate of a few per year on average. The following list contains all described species as of 1 October 2018, arranged by subgenus:
- Mantidactylus
- Mantidactylus guttulatus Boulenger, 1881
- Mantidactylus grandidieri Mocquard, 1895
- Mantidactylus radaka Rancilhac et al, 2020
- Brygoomantis
- Mantidactylus ulcerosus Boettger, 1880
- Mantidactylus bellyi Mocquard, 1895
- Mantidactylus noralottae Mercurio & Andreone, 2007
- Mantidactylus betsileanus (Boulenger, 1882)
- Mantidactylus multiplicatus Boettger, 1913
- Mantidactylus curtus (Boulenger, 1882)
- Mantidactylus ambohimitombi Boulenger, 1919
- Mantidactylus bourgati Guibé, 1974
- Mantidactylus madecassus (Millot & Guibé, 1950)
- Mantidactylus pauliani Guibé, 1974
- Mantidactylus alutus (Peracca, 1893)
- Mantidactylus biporus (Boulenger, 1889)
- Mantidactylus tricinctus (Guibé, 1947)
- Mantidactylus schulzi Vences, Hildenbrand, Warmuth, Andreone & Glaw, 2018
- Chonomantis
- Mantidactylus albofrenatus (Müller, 1892)
- Mantidactylus paidroa Bora, Ramilijoana, Raminosoa & Vences, 2011
- Mantidactylus charlotteae Vences & Glaw, 2004
- Mantidactylus zipperi Vences & Glaw, 2004
- Mantidactylus aerumnalis (Peracca, 1893)
- Mantidactylus melanopleura (Mocquard, 1901)
- Mantidactylus opiparis (Peracca, 1893)
- Mantidactylus brevipalmatus Ahl, 1929
- Mantidactylus delormei Angel, 1938
- Ochthomantis
- Mantidactylus ambreensis Mocquard, 1895
- Mantidactylus femoralis (Boulenger, 1882)
- Mantidactylus mocquardi Angel, 1929
- Mantidactylus zolitschka Glaw & Vences, 2004
- Mantidactylus majori Boulenger, 1896
- Maitsomantis
- Mantidactylus argenteus Methuen, 1920
- Hylobatrachus
- Mantidactylus cowanii (Boulenger, 1882)
- Mantidactylus lugubris (Duméril, 1853)
- Mantidactylus atsimo Scherz, Glaw, Hutter, Bletz, Rakotoarison, Köhler, and Vences, 2019
- Mantidactylus petakorona Scherz, Glaw, Hutter, Bletz, Rakotoarison, Köhler, and Vences, 2019
References
- Boulenger, George Albert (1895). "On a genus of frog peculiar to Madagascar". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 6. 15: 450. doi:10.1080/00222939508677910.
- Ahl, E. (1931). "Amphibia, Anura III, Polypedatidae". Das Tierreich. 55: 10.
- Blommers-Schlösser, R. M. A. (1979). "Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs I. Mantellinae (Ranidae)". Beaufortia. 29: 1–77.
- Glaw, Frank; Vences, Miguel (2006). "Phylogeny and genus-level classification of mantellid frogs (Amphibia, Anura)". Organisms, Diversity & Evolution. 6 (2006): 236–253. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2005.12.001.
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