Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Dendrobates ebenaui Boettger, 1880, Zool. Anz., 3: 281. Syntypes: (2 specimens in original publication), these being SMF 1141.1a and MCZ 2165 (according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 303. SMF 7323 designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 24. Type locality: "insula Nossi Bé", Madagascar.

Mantella ebenaui — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 141. Werner, 1901, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 51: 633.

Mantella attemsi Werner, 1901, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 51: 627. Syntypes: including NHMW 20837, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 24, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 28, and ZMB 16588 according to Vences, Glaw, and Böhme, 1999, Alytes, 17: 12. NHMW 20837 designated lectotype by Vences, Glaw, and Böhme, 1999, Alytes, 17: 11. Type locality: "Madagascar oder Nossi-Bé". Synonymy with Mantella betsileo by Guibé, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 263; Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 83. Synonymy with Mantella ebenaui by Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 250.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Northern east coast and the Sambirano region in northwestern Madagascar.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Mantella betsileo by Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 250 (and who discussed the previous confusion), where it had been placed by Mocquard, 1909, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 5, 1: 66; Methuen and Hewitt, 1913, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 4: 57; Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 83. In the Mantella betsileo group of Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 2. In the Mantella cowani group of Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 2. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 188-189, provided an account.

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