Gephyromantis

Gephyromantis is a frog genus in the mantellid subfamily Mantellinae. This genus is restricted to Madagascar. At present it contains 45 species divided into six subgenera.[1][2]

Gephyromantis
Gephyromantis (Phylacomantis) pseudoasper
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Clade: Ranoidea
Family: Mantellidae
Subfamily: Mantellinae
Genus: Gephyromantis
Methuen, 1920
Type species
Gephyromantis boulengeri
Methuen, 1920
Diversity
47 species in six subgenera
Synonyms
  • Microphryne Methuen and Hewitt, 1913
  • Trachymantis Methuen, 1920

Taxonomy

The genus Gephyromantis was erected by Methuen in 1920 for the species Gephyromantis boulengeri.[3] Blommers-Schlösser considered this group as a subgenus of Mantidactylus,[4] but it was re-elevated to genus-level in 2006.[5]

Species

This genus is divided into six subgenera:

  • Gephyromantis Methuen, 1920
  • Vatomantis Glaw & Vences, 2006
  • Laurentomantis Dubois, 1980
  • Phylacomantis Glaw & Vences, 1994
  • 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
  • Duboimantis Glaw & Vences, 2006
  • Asperomantis Vences, Köhler, Pabijan, Bletz, Gehring, Hawlitschek, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Andreone, Crottini & Glaw, 2017
  • Gephyromantis asper (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Gephyromantis spiniferus (Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991)
  • Gephyromantis ambohitra (Vences and Glaw, 2001)
  • Gephyromantis tahotra Glaw, Köhler, and Vences, 2011
  • Gephyromantis ceratophrys (Ahl, 1929)
  • Gephyromantis angano Scherz, Vences, Borrell, Ball, Nomenjanahary, Parker, Rakotondratsima, Razafimandimby, Starnes, Rabearivony and Glaw, 2017
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References
  1. Frost, Darrel R. "Gephyromantis Methuen, 1920". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  2. Vences, Miguel; Köhler, Jörn; Pabijan, Maciej; Bletz, Molly; Gehring, Philip-Sebastian; Hawlitschek, Oliver; Rakotoarison, Andolalao; Ratsoavina, Fanomazena M.; Andreone, Franco; Crottini, Angelica; Glaw, Frank (2017). "Taxonomy and geographic distribution of Malagasy frogs of the Gephyromantis asper clade, with description of a new subgenus and revalidation of Gephyromantis ceratophrys". Salamandra. 53: 77–98.
  3. 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.
  4. Blommers-Schlösser, R. M. A. (1979). "Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs I. Mantellinae (Ranidae)". Beaufortia. 29: 1–77.
  5. 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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