Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Mantidactylus grandisonae Guibé, 1974, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 171: 1170. Holotype: MNHNP 1972.1085, by original designation. Type locality: "Ambana, camp IV, alt. 1000 m, forêt de basse altitude. Chaînes Anosyennes", Madagascar.

Mantidactylus (Blommersia) grandisonae — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 311.

Blommersia grandisonae — Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 14. Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 242; by implication; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 2.

English Names

Ambrana Madagascar Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 101).

Distribution

Southeastern Madagascar.

Comment

Prior to the revision of Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 236-253, in the Mantidactylus argenteus group of in the Mantidactylus argenteus group of Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 160; in the Mantidactylus (Blommersia) argenteus group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 311, and subsequently in the Mantidactylus (Blommersia) domerguei group of Glaw and Vences, 2002, Herpetol. J., 12: 11-20. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 184-185, provided an account and noted an unnamed similar species in east-central Madagascar.

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