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

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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