Mantidactylus brevipalmatus Ahl, 1929
Mantidactylus brevipalmatus Ahl, 1929 "1928", Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 14: 473. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered according to the original publication; reported as ZMB 30530 by Vences and Glaw, 2004, J. Nat. Hist., 38: 82. Type locality: "Nord-West-Madagascar".
Mantidactylus (Mantidactylus) brevipalmatus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 22.
Mantidactylus (Chonomantis) brevipalmatus — Glaw and Vences, 1994, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 2: 401.
Mantidactylus (Chonomantis) brevipalmatus — Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 29. Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 3.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Mountains of central Madagascar, 1670-2380 m elevation.
Comment
Resurrected from the synonymy of Mantidactylus aerumnalis by Andreone and Gavetti, 1994, Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 12: 57-71, where it had been placed by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 233. Vences and Glaw, 2004, J. Nat. Hist., 38: 80-86, and Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 244-245, provided accounts.
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