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Platypelis ravus Glaw, Köhler, and Vences, 2012

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Cophylinae > Genus: Platypelis

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Platypelis ravus Glaw, Köhler, and Vences, 2012, Europ. J. Taxon., 9: 3. Holotype: ZSM 349/2005, by original designation. Type locality: "Marojejy National Park, ‘Camp Simpona’, 14° 26.199′ S 49° 44.601′ E, 1326 m above sea level, Antsiranana Province, northeastern Madagascar ".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Marojejy National Park, ‘Camp Simpona’, 14° 26.199′ S 49° 44.601′ E, 1326 m above sea level, Antsiranana Province, northeastern Madagascar).

Comment

Referred to by Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3, as Platypelis sp. aff. mavomavo 2, by Wollenberg, Vieites, van der Meijden, Glaw, Cannatella, and Vences, 2008, Evolution, 62: 1890-1907, as Platypelis sp. 2, and as Platypelis sp. 4 by Vieites, Wollenberg, Andreone, Köhler, Glaw, and Vences, 2009, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 106: 8267-8272.

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