Yet another small brown frog from high altitude on the Marojejy Massif, northeastern Madagascar (Anura: Mantellidae)
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Madagascar hosts a high diversity of small brown frogs. In this paper, we add another one by describing Gephyromantis (Duboimantis) tohatra sp. nov. The new species is a small brown mantellid frog discovered on a recent expedition to Marojejy National Park in northeastern Madagascar. It is characterised, among other things, by its small size (snout-vent length ~33 mm), an orange to yellowish belly, two dorsolateral ridges, and a distinctive call composed of 7-10 pulsed notes. The new species occurs sympatrically with other members of the subgenus Duboimantis at high altitude (~1700 m above sea level), including its sister species G. schilfi from which it radically differs by advertisement call and by a substantial genetic divergence of 4.3% uncorrected pairwise distance in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene. It thus joins the diverse assemblage of Gephyromantis species known from high altitudes on the mountain massifs of northern Madagascar.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Zootaxa |
| Volume | 4347 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 572-582 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISSN | 1175-5326 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
We are grateful to A. Razafimanantsoa and E. Mahazandry for their assistance in the field, to M. Kondermann and G. Keunecke for help with laboratory work, and to J. Köhler for his constructive review of the manuscript. This work was carried out in the framework of collaboration accords of the Technische Universität Braunschweig and the Zoologische Staatssammlung München with the Université d’Antananarivo, Faculté des Sciences (Zoologie et Biodiversité Animale). We are grateful to the Malagasy authorities for issuing permits for research, collection and export of specimens, and both to the staff of Madagascar National Parks in the central office and at Marojejy for their support. AR and MCB were supported by fellowships of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. MV and MDS were supported by grants of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (VE247/13-1 and 15-1).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Magnolia Press.
- Amphibia, Anura, Gephyromantis, Gephyromantis schilfi, Gephyromantis tandroka, Gephyromantis tohatra sp. nov., Mantellidae
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