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Gephyromantis schilfi (Glaw and Vences, 2000)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Mantellinae > Genus: Gephyromantis

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Mantidactylus schilfi Glaw and Vences, 2000, Spixiana, München, 23: 75. Holotype: ZFMK 59885, by original designation. Type locality: "'Réserve Naturelle Intégrale Marojezy', Camp 4 (ca. 1250 m above sea level), northeastern Madagascar".

Gephyromantis schilfi — Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 19.

Gephyromantis (Duboimantis) schilfi — Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 244. by implication; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 2.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the Parc National de Marojejy, ca. 1250 m elevation, in northeastern Madagascar.

Comment

Annectent between the subgenera Gephyromantis and Phylacomantis according to the original publication. Subsequently placed in subgenus Duboimantis by Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 236-253. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 224-225, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Mantidactylus schilfi) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 432.

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