Rhombophryne laevipes (Mocquard, 1895)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Cophylinae > Genus: Rhombophryne > Species: Rhombophryne laevipes

English Names

Madagascar Digging Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 92).

Distribution

Northern Madagascar in the Montagne d'Ambre region

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Mantipus hildebrandti (= Mantipus inguinalis) by Guibé, 1946, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 18: 50, where it had been placed by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 34. See brief account by Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 120–121. In the Rhombophryne laevis species group of Belluardo, Scherz, Santos, Andreone, Antonelli, Glaw, Muñoz-Pajares, Randrianirina, Raselimanana, Vences, and Crottini, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2039320): 1–13.

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