Gephyromantis ceratophrys (Ahl, 1929 "1928")

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Mantellinae > Genus: Gephyromantis > Species: Gephyromantis ceratophrys

Mantidactylus ceratophrys Ahl, 1929 "1928", Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 14: 475. Syntypes: ZMB (6 specimens) unnumbered according to the original publication; these lost according to Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 25; not lost and ZMB 10443–44, 50401–02 according to Vences and Glaw, 2001, Alytes, 19: 113, who designated ZMB 10443 as lectotype. Type locality: "Betsileo (Madagascar)". 

Mantidactylus (Mantidactylus) ceratophrys — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 31.

Gephyromantis (Asperomantis) ceratophrysVences, Köhler, Pabijan, Bletz, Gehring, Hawlitschek, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Andreone, Crottini, and Glaw, 2017, Salamandra, 53: 87. 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known with certainty only from Ranomafana National Park, ca. 1200 m elevation, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Gephyromantis aspera by Vences, Köhler, Pabijan, Bletz, Gehring, Hawlitschek, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Andreone, Crottini, and Glaw, 2017, Salamandra, 53: 87, where it had been placed by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 25.

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