Boophis liami Vallan, Vences, and Glaw, 2003

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

Boophis liami Vallan, Vences, and Glaw, 2003, Amphibia-Reptilia, 24: 307. Holotype: ZFMK 60123, by original designation. Type locality: "at the edge of the river Ranomena near Ambavaniasy (a site called Befody), 18° 57,3′ S, 48° 30,7′ E, 760 m elevation, Moramanga Fivondronana, Toamasina Province, central eastern Madagascar".

Boophis (Boophis) liamiGlaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 242, by implication; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 1.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (near Ambavaniasy, Moramanga Fivondronana, Toamasina Province, east-central Madagascar).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

In the Boophis rappiodes group according to the original publication. In the more exclusive Boophis mandraka group of Vences and Glaw, 2005, Afr. J. Herpetol., 54: 79, and Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 240. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 178-179, provided an account.

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