Mantella haraldmeieri Busse, 1981
Mantella madagascariensis haraldmeieri Busse, 1981, Amphibia-Reptilia, 2: 34. Holotype: ZFMK 53540 by original designation. Type locality: "Fort Dauphin, Süd Madagaskar".
Mantella haraldmeieri — Meier, 1986, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 8: 9. Pintak and Böhme, 1990, Salamandra, 26: 58-62; Glaw and Vences, 1992, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar: 166.
English Names
Haraldmeier's Mantella (Staniszewski, 2001, Mantellas: 182).
Tolagnaro Golden Frog (Staniszewski, 2001, Mantellas: 182).
Distribution
Anosy Mountains, southeastern Madagascar, 300-950 m elevation.
Comment
Placed in the synonymy of Mantella cowani by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 270, but resurrected by Böhme, Busse, and Glaw, 1993, Amphibia-Reptilia, 14: 269-273. In the Mantella cowani group of Vences, Glaw, and Böhme, 1999, Alytes, 17: 3-72; and Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 2. Staniszewski, 2001, Mantellas: 182-185, provided an account. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 194-195, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 428, who provided a personal communication from F. Glaw that this taxon may be a color variant of Mantella baroni.
External Links
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
- For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
- for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML
