Laliostoma Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998
Laliostoma Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 36: 35. Type genus: Tomopterna labrosa Cope, 1868, by original designation. Coined as an explicit subgenus under Tomopterna.
Laliostoma — Vences, Glaw, Kosuch, Das, and Veith, 2000, Lourenço and Goodman (eds.), Diversité et Endéémisme à Madagascar: 232. First use as a genus.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
As for the single species, central and western Madagascar.
Comment
Richards and Moore, 1998, Herpetol. J., 8: 41-46, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence, that this species was nested within the Madagascan component of the Rhacophoridae. Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 36: 35, suggested that Tomopterna labrosa was most closely related to the African component of the genus, which might be polyphyletic. Bossuyt and Milinkovitch, 2000, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97: 6585-6590, suggested that this species was more closely related to Madagascan rhacophorids and mantellids than other ranids. Vences and Glaw, 2001, Spixiana, München, 24: 85-92, transferred Laliostoma labrosum to the Laliostominae of the Mantellidae and posited that it was most closely related to Aglyptodactylus. See also Vences, Glaw, Kosuch, Das, and Veith, 2000, Lourenço and Goodman (eds.), Diversité et Endéémisme à Madagascar: 229-242.
Contained taxa
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