Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hemimantis horrida Boettger, 1880, Zool. Anz., 3: 282. Holotype: SMF 7177 (formerly 1118.2a) according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 46. Type locality: "insula Nossi-Bé", Madagascar.

Arthroleptis horridus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 118.

Hemimantis (Arthroleptis) horrida — Methuen and Hewitt, 1913, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 4: 56.

Trachymantis horrida — Methuen, 1920 "1919", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1919: 352. Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 80.

Trachymantis horridus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 204.

Laurentomantis horrida — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 2: 350.

Mantidactylus (Laurentomantis) horridus — Glaw and Vences, 1994, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 2: 403.

Gephyromantis (Laurentomantis) horridus — Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 22. Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 244; by implication; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 3.

English Names

Boettger's Grainy Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Nosy Bé I.), Montagne d'Ambre, and Tsaratanana Massif, northern Madagascar, 300-1400 m elevation.

Comment

See accounts by Vences, Glaw, Andreone, Jesu, and Schimmenti, 2002, Bijdr. Dierkd., 70: 193-198, and Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 216-217 (and who noted a similar unnamed species from Marojejy). Andreone, Glaw, Nussbaum, Raxworthy, Vences, and Randrianirina, 2003, J. Nat. Hist., 37: 2119-2149, discussed the occurrence of this species on Nosy Be. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Mantidactylus horridus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 430.

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