Rhombophryne tany Scherz, Ruthensteiner, Vieites, Vences, and Glaw, 2015

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

Rhombophryne tany Scherz, Ruthensteiner, Vieites, Vences, and Glaw, 2015, Herpetologica, 71: 317. Holotype: ZSM 1814/2010, by original designation. Type locality: "on the Tsaratanana Massif, Camp 2 (Matsabory Maiky), 14.15256°S, 48.95728°E, 2021 m asl, on the border between the Antsiranana and Mahajanga provinces, northern Madagascar". 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the Tsaratanana Massif, 2021 m elevation, on the border between the Antsiranana and Mahajanga provinces, northern Madagascar. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

In the Rhombophryne serratopalpebrosa group according to the original publication. In the Rhombophryne serratopalpebrosa 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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