Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rhacophorus albilabris Boulenger, 1888, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 1: 105. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.9.16 according to Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 305. Type locality: "Eastern Imerina", Madagascar.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) albilabris — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 176.

Boophis albilabris — Blommers-Schlösser, 1979, Bijdr. Dierkd., 49: 276.

Boophis albilabris albilabris — Glaw and Vences, 1994, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 2: 90.

Boophis (Boophis) albilabris — Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 242. by implication; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 1.

English Names

White-lipped Bright-eyed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110).

Distribution

Forests of northeastern, eastern and southeastern Madagascar, 100-1000 m elevation, Madagascar.

Comment

In the Boophis luteus group of Blommers-Schlösser, 1979, Bijdr. Dierkd., 49: 273. In the Boophis albilabris group of Glaw and Vences, 1994, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 2: 90. See Cadle, 1995, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 115: 313-345, for discussion of sexual dimorphism. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 166-167, provided an account and noted two unnamed species from eastern Madagascar.

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