Mantidactylus betsileanus

Mantidactylus betsileanus
	Ranomafana National Park
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Mantellidae
Genus:	Mantidactylus
Species:	M. betsileanus
Binomial name
	Mantidactylus betsileanus; (Boulenger, 1882)

Mantidactylus betsileanus is a species of frog in the family Mantellidae. It is endemic to Madagascar.[1] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.

Breeding takes place in streams, pools, puddles, and rice fields (Vences and Nussbaum 2008)

Possible reasons for amphibian decline

General habitat alteration and loss

Habitat modification from deforestation, or logging related activities

Habitat fragmentation

References

Glaw, Frank; Vences, Miguel (2007). A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar (3rd ed.). Cologne, Germany: Vences & Glaw Verlags. ISBN 978-3929449037.

2)Edmonds, D., Kessler, E. and Bolte, L. (2019), How common is common? Rapidly assessing population size and structure of the frog Mantidactylus betsileanus at a site in east‐central Madagascar. Austral Ecology

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[GnV07-1] Glaw, Frank; Vences, Miguel (2007). A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar (3rd ed.). Cologne, Germany: Vences & Glaw Verlags. ISBN 978-3929449037.