Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rhacophorus aglavei Methuen and Hewitt, 1913, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 4: 54. Holotype: TMP 10073 (formerly 1100) according to Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 192. Type locality: "forests adjacent to Analamazotra", Madagascar.

Rhacophorus sikorae Boettger, 1913, in Voeltzkow (ed.), Reise Ost-Afr., 3(4): 276. Syntypes: SMF (5 specimens), MCZ 17712 (on exchange from SMF, according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 185); SMF 6815 designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 49. Type locality: "Moramanga, O. Madagascar". Synonymy by Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 185; Guibé, 1947, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 19: 438-439; Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 62.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) sikorae — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 190.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) aglavei — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 197.

Boophis aglavei — Guibé, 1947, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 19: 439.

Boophis sikorae — Guibé, 1947, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 19: 439.

Mantidactylus aglavei — Blommers-Schlösser, 1979, Beaufortia, 29: 25.

Mantidactylus (Spinomantis) aglavei — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 313.

Spinomantis aglavei — Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 25. Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 248; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 2.

English Names

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

Distribution

Andringitra Mountains and eastern forests of Madagascar.

Comment

Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 206-207, provided an account.

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