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Yet another small brown frog from high altitude on the Marojejy Massif, northeastern Madagascar (Anura: Mantellidae).
- Source :
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Zootaxa [Zootaxa] 2017 Nov 14; Vol. 4347 (3), pp. 572-582. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Nov 14. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Madagascar hosts a high diversity of small brown frogs. In this paper, we add another one by describing Gephyromantis (Duboimantis) tohatra sp. nov. The new species is a small brown mantellid frog discovered on a recent expedition to Marojejy National Park in northeastern Madagascar. It is characterised, among other things, by its small size (snout-vent length ~33 mm), an orange to yellowish belly, two dorsolateral ridges, and a distinctive call composed of 7-10 pulsed notes. The new species occurs sympatrically with other members of the subgenus Duboimantis at high altitude (~1700 m above sea level), including its sister species G. schilfi from which it radically differs by advertisement call and by a substantial genetic divergence of 4.3% uncorrected pairwise distance in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene. It thus joins the diverse assemblage of Gephyromantis species known from high altitudes on the mountain massifs of northern Madagascar.
- Subjects :
- Altitude
Animals
Madagascar
Phylogeny
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
Anura
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1175-5334
- Volume :
- 4347
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Zootaxa
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 29245586
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4347.3.9