Gephyromantis

Gephyromantis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Subclass: Lissamphibia
Order: Anura
Suborder: Neobatrachia
Family: Mantellidae
Subfamily: Mantellinae
Genus: Gephyromantis
Methuen, 1920
Type species
Gephyromantis boulengeri
Methuen, 1920
Diversity
41 described species

Gephyromantis is a frog genus in the mantellid subfamily Mantellinae. This genus is restricted to Madagascar. At present it contains 41 species divided into five subgenera.[1]

Taxonomy

The genus Gephyromantis was erected by Methuen in 1920 for the species Gephyromantis boulengeri.[2] Blommers-Schlösser considered this group as a subgenus of Mantidactylus,[3] but it was re-elevated to genus-level in 2006.[4]

Species

This genus is divided into five subgenera:

  • Gephyromantis corvus (Glaw and Vences, 1994)
  • Gephyromantis pseudoasper (Guibé, 1974)
  • Gephyromantis azzurrae Mercurio and Andreone, 2007
  • Gephyromantis atsingy Crottini, Glaw, Casiraghi, Jenkins, Mercurio, Randrianantoandro, Randrianirina, and Andreone, 2011

References

  1. Frost, Darrel R. "Gephyromantis Methuen, 1920". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  2. Methuen, P. A. (1920). "Descriptions of a new snake from the Transvaal, together with a new diagnosis and key to the genus Xenocalamus, and of some Batrachia from Madagascar". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1919: 349–355.
  3. Blommers-Schlösser, R. M. A. (1979). "Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs I. Mantellinae (Ranidae).". Beaufortia. 29: 1–77.
  4. 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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