Boophis xerophilus Glaw and Vences, 1997

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

Boophis xerophilus Glaw and Vences, 1997, Copeia, 1997: 572. Holotype: ZFMK 59987, by original designation. Type locality: "Kirindy forest (20° 03′ S, 44° 39′ E; below 100 m above sea level), about 60 km north of Morondava, western Madagascar".

Boophis (Sahona) xerophilusGlaw 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 and Berenty in southeastern Madagascar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

In the Boophis tephraeomystax group according to the original publication. In the Boophis tephraeomystax group of Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 1. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 148-149, provided an account.

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