Aglyptodactylus Boulenger, 1919
Aglyptodactylus Boulenger, 1919 "1918", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1918: 257. Type species: Limnodytes madagascariensis Duméril, 1853, by monotypy. Coined as a subgenus of Mantidactylus.
Aglyptodactylus — Laurent, 1943, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 19: 1-16. Elevation to generic status.
English Names
Madagascar Jumping Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110).
Distribution
Madagascar.
Comment
Blommers-Schlösser, 1979, Beaufortia, 29: 65-66, considered Aglyptodactylus more closely related to Boophis, in Rhacophoridae, than to Mantellinae, where it had been placed by Laurent, 1943, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 19: 1-16. See Blommers-Schlösser, 1978, Genetica, 48: 23-40, for karyotypes. See account by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 342-346. See also Glaw and Vences, 1992, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar: 61-62. Transferred from Rhacophorinae to Mantellinae by Channing, 1989, S. Afr. J. Zool., 24: 116-131; this disputed by Blommers-Schlösser, 1993, Ethol. Ecol. Evol., 5: 199-203, and Glaw and Vences, 1994, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 2: 82, who retained it in the Rhacophorinae. Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 36: 17-37, suggested that Aglyptodactylus is a ranine close to Madagascan Tomopterna (now Laliostoma). Richards and Moore, 1998, Herpetol. J., 8: 41-46, discussed phylogenetics within the family and suggested that Tomopterna labrosa, nominally a Madagascan ranine, was within the rhacophorine clade. Wilkinson and Drewes, 2000, Contemp. Herpetol., 2000: 1-14, suggested that Aglyptodactylus is close to Mantidactylus. Richards, Nussbaum, and Raxworthy, 2000, Afr. J. Herpetol., 49: 23-32, placed Aglyptodactylus as possibly the sister taxon of Boophis, but more assuredly, with Boophis, in the area of Mantidactylus. See comment under Laliostoma. Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 4, noted an undescribed species in southeastern Madgascar.
Contained taxa
- Aglyptodactylus laticeps Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998
- Aglyptodactylus madagascariensis (Duméril, 1853)
- Aglyptodactylus securifer Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998
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