Blommersia Dubois, 1992
Blommersia Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 311. Type species: Gephyromantis blommersae Guibé, 1975, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Mantidactylus.
Blommersia — Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 242. Rank of genus.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Madagascar.
Comment
Suggested by Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 236-253, and Kurabayashi, Sumida, Yonekawa, Glaw, Vences, and Hasegawa, 2008, Mol. Biol. Evol., 25: 874-891, to be the sister taxon of Guibemantis. This was confirmed by Wollenberg, Vieites, Glaw, and Vences, 2011, BMC Evol. Biol., 11 (217) : 1-15. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 184-187, provided accounts. Vences, Köhler, Pabijan, and Glaw, 2010, Afr. J. Herpetol., 59:: 137, provided a molecular tree of relationships. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, provided a molecular tree based on Genbank sequences that largely confirmed earlier studies.
Contained taxa
- Blommersia angolafa Andreone, Rosa, Noël, Crottini, Vences, and Raxworthy, 2010
- Blommersia blommersae (Guibé, 1975)
- Blommersia dejongi Vences, Köhler, Pabijan, and Glaw, 2010
- Blommersia domerguei (Guibé, 1974)
- Blommersia galani Vences, Köhler, Pabijan, and Glaw, 2010
- Blommersia grandisonae (Guibé, 1974)
- Blommersia kely (Glaw and Vences, 1994)
- Blommersia sarotra (Glaw and Vences, 2002)
- Blommersia variabilis Pabijan, Gehring, Köhler, Glaw, and Vences, 2011
- Blommersia wittei (Guibé, 1974)
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