Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Polypedates lugubris Duméril, 1853, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, Ser. 3, 19: 157. Syntypes: MNHNP 4583 (4 specimens), according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 49. Type locality: Not stated; given as Madagascar by by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 218.

Rhacophorus lugubris — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 77.

Mantidactylus lugubris — Boulenger, 1895, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 15: 450.

Mantidactylus (Hylobatrachus) lugubris — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 312. Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 3.

English Names

Dumeril's Madagascar Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 101).

Distribution

Eastern Madagascar.

Comment

Prior to the revision by Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 236-253, in the Mantidactylus (Hylobatrachus) lugubris group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 312. Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 30, noted that this is a species complex. See Mantidactylus cowanii. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 250-251, provided an account and noted unnamed similar species.

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