Mantidactylus alutus (Peracca, 1893)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Mantellinae > Genus: Mantidactylus > Species: Mantidactylus alutus

Rana aluta Peracca, 1893, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 8 (156): 12. Syntypes: Including MZUT 725 and 729 (according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 106), MNHNP 1894.1-2 (according to Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 38), and BMNH (according to Boulenger, 1895 "1894", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1894: 640-646). MZUT An725.1 designated lectotype by Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 131. Type locality: "dai dintorni di Andrangoloaka e dalla vicina valle dell'Umbi", Madagascar; given as Andrangoloaka, Madagascar by Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 131.

Mantidactylus alutaMocquard, 1909, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 5, 1: 56.

Mantidactylus alutusBoulenger, 1918, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1918: 258.

Mantidactylus laevis Angel, 1929, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 1: 360. Holotype: MNHNP 1929.208, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 49; lost according to Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 45, and Scherz, Crottini, Hutter, Hildenbrand, Andreone, Fulgence, Köhler, Ndriantsoa, Ohler, Preick, Rakotoarison, Rancilhac, Raselimanana, Riemann, Rödel, Rosa, Streicher, Vieites, Köhler, Hofreiter, Glaw, and Vences, 2022, Megataxa, 7: 178. Type locality: "environs de Tananarive", Madagascar. Considered a nomen dubium by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 45. Considered a synonym of Mantidactylus alutus by Glaw and Vences, 1992, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar: 278, and confirmed by Scherz, Crottini, Hutter, Hildenbrand, Andreone, Fulgence, Köhler, Ndriantsoa, Ohler, Preick, Rakotoarison, Rancilhac, Raselimanana, Riemann, Rödel, Rosa, Streicher, Vieites, Köhler, Hofreiter, Glaw, and Vences, 2022, Megataxa, 7: 178. 

Mantidactylus (Mantidactylus) alutusAhl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 14.

Mantidactylus (Mantidactylus) laevisAhl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 36.

Mantidactylus (Brygoomantis) alutusDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 311; Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 3.

English Names

Mountain Madagascar Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 101).

Distribution

Central highlands of Madagascar (Antananarivo, Ankaratra, Ibity, Ambohitantely, Ranomafanakely, Antoetra, a swamp in the Alaotra region, Mantasoa, Forêt de Tampina, and Tsinjoarivo), 933–2090 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

: 238-239, provided an account. See account by Vences, Andreone, Glaw, Raminosoa, Randrianirina, and Vieites, 2002, Ital. J. Zool., 69: 271. Subgenus Brygoomantis, Mantidactylus curtus clade of Scherz, Crottini, Hutter, Hildenbrand, Andreone, Fulgence, Köhler, Ndriantsoa, Ohler, Preick, Rakotoarison, Rancilhac, Raselimanana, Riemann, Rödel, Rosa, Streicher, Vieites, Köhler, Hofreiter, Glaw, and Vences, 2022, Megataxa, 7: 113–311, who provided and account detailing (p. 170–178) diagnosis, natural history, adult and larval morphology, advertisement call, and distribution. 

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