Boophis andrangoloaka (Ahl, 1928)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Boophinae > Genus: Boophis > Species: Boophis andrangoloaka

Rhacophorus andrangoloaka Ahl, 1928, Zool. Anz., 75: 311. Syntypes: ZMB (2 specimens) unnumbered in original publication of which ZMB 30518 and 50102 are presumed to be these syntypes (see following); ZMB 30518, presumably in error, regarded as holotype by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 74; ZMB 30510 formally designated lectotype by Glaw and Vences, 1997 "1996", Salamandra, 32: 237. Type locality: "Zentralmadagasckar (Angrangoloaka)".

Rhacophorus brevirostris Ahl, 1928, Zool. Anz., 75: 313. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered according to the original publication; ZMB 30518 according to Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 74. Type locality: "N.W. Madagascar"; considered to be in error by Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010, Zootaxa, 2383: 16. Synonymy with Boophis rhodoscelis by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 74. Synonymy with Boophis andrangoloaka by Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010, Zootaxa, 2383: 16.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) brevirostrisAhl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 192.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) andrangoloakaAhl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 185.

Boophis andrangoloakaGuibé, 1947, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 19: 439.

Boophis andrangoloaka — Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010, Zootaxa, 2383: 12.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from Ankafobe, Angrangoloaka, and Ambohitantely Special Reserves, northern Madagascar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Boophis rhodoscelis by Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010, Zootaxa, 2383: 12, where it had been placed by Guibé, 1947, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 19: 439; and Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 74. See comments by Mullin, Rakotomanga, Razafiarimanana, Barata, Dawson, Hailer, and Orozco-terWengel, 2021, Herpetol. Notes, 14: 521–531, provided the record from Ankafobe Reserve, Madagascar. 

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