Mantidactylus

Mantidactylus
Mantidactylus guttulatus, the type species of Mantidactylus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Mantellidae
Subfamily: Mantellinae
Genus: Mantidactylus
Boulenger, 1895
Type species
Rana guttulata
Boulenger, 1881
Diversity
58 species in six subgenera

Mantidactylus is a frog genus in the mantellid subfamily Mantellinae. This genus is restricted to Madagascar. The genus is divided into several subgenera that form monophyletic genetic clusters and are ecologically similar.

Taxonomy

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Mantidactylus was erected by Boulenger in 1895 with the type species Rana guttulata.[1][2] For a long time the genus contained a wide variety of mostly terrestrial Madagascan frogs, that were divided into species groups[3] and/or subgenera. Several of these groups were subsequently erected to genus level: Blommersia, Boehmantis, Gephyromantis, Guibemantis, Spinomantis and Wakea.[4] Today, six subgenera remain within the genus Mantidactylus:

Species

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New species of Mantidactylus are described at a rate of a few per year on average. The following list contains all described species as of 6 January 2023, arranged by subgenus:

  • Mantidactylus
Cladogram of subgenus Brygoomantis:[5]
Brygoomantis
tricinctus complex

M. gudrunae

M. tricinctus

M. grubenmanni

betsileanus complex

M. noralottae

M. kortei

M. katae

M. tripunctatus

M. jonasi

M. incognitus

M. betsileanus

fergusoni complex

M. georgei

M. jahnarum

M. fergusoni

ulcerosus complex

M. ulcerosus

M. bellyi

M. schultzi

M. steinfartzi

stelliger clade

M. stelliger

biporus complex

M. brevirostris

M. eulenbergeri

M. biporus

M. augustini

inaudax complex

M. inaudax

M. manerana

curtus complex

M. alutus

M. mahery

M. pauliani

M. bourgati

M. curtus

M. madecassus

M. ambohimitombi

References

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  1. ^ Boulenger, George Albert (1895). "On a genus of frog peculiar to Madagascar". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 6. 15: 450. doi:10.1080/00222939508677910.
  2. ^ Ahl, E. (1931). "Amphibia, Anura III, Polypedatidae". Das Tierreich. 55: 10.
  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.
  5. ^ Mark D. Scherz (15 December 2022). "An inordinate fondness for inconspicuous brown frogs: integration of phylogenomics, archival DNA analysis, morphology, and bioacoustics yields 24 new taxa in the subgenus Brygoomantis (genus Mantidactylus) from Madagascar". Megataxa. 7 (2): 113–311. doi:10.11646/MEGATAXA.7.2.1. ISSN 2703-3082. Wikidata Q117421772.
  6. ^ Scherz, Mark D.; Rasolonjatovo, Safidy M.; Köhler, Jörn; Rancilhac, Loïs; Rakotoarison, Andolalao; Raselimanana, Achille P.; Ohler, Annemarie; Preick, Michaela; Hofreiter, Michael; Glaw, Frank; Vences, Miguel (2020-11-05). "'Barcode fishing' for archival DNA from historical type material overcomes taxonomic hurdles, enabling the description of a new frog species". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 19109. Bibcode:2020NatSR..1019109S. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-75431-9. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 7644772. PMID 33154397.


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