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Mantidactylus delormei Angel, 1938

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

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Mantidactylus delormei Angel, 1938, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 10: 488. Holotype: MNHNP 1938.240, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 48. Type locality: "[Massif de l'] Andringitra: Antaranomby (Etang de Boeufs)", Madagascar.

Mantidactylus (Chonomantis) delormei — Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 29. Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 250; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 3.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Andringitra Mts., Madagascar.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Mantidactylus brevipalmatus by Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 29, and Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 250, where it had been placed by Andreone and Gavetti, 1994, Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 12: 57-71. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 244-245, provided an account.

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