Gephyromantis is a frog genus in the mantellid subfamily Mantellinae. This genus is restricted to Madagascar. At present it contains 45 species divided into six subgenera.[1][2]
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| Gephyromantis (Phylacomantis) pseudoasper | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Clade: | Ranoidea |
| Family: | Mantellidae |
| Subfamily: | Mantellinae |
| Genus: | Gephyromantis Methuen, 1920 |
| Type species | |
| Gephyromantis boulengeri Methuen, 1920
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| Diversity | |
| 47 species in six subgenera | |
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Taxonomy
editThe genus Gephyromantis was erected by Methuen in 1920 for the species Gephyromantis boulengeri.[3] Blommers-Schlösser considered this group as a subgenus of Mantidactylus,[4] but it was re-elevated to genus-level in 2006.[5]
Species
editThis genus is divided into six subgenera:[citation needed]
- Gephyromantis Methuen, 1920
- decaryi complex
- Gephyromantis decaryi Angel, 1930
- Gephyromantis hintelmannae Wollenberg, Glaw, and Vences, 2012
- Gephyromantis leucocephalus Angel, 1930
- Gephyromantis verrucosus Angel, 1930
- eiselti complex
- Gephyromantis eiselti Guibé, 1975
- Gephyromantis thelenae (Glaw and Vences, 1994)
- Gephyromantis mafy Vieites, Wollenberg, and Vences, 2012
- blanci complex
- Gephyromantis cornucopia Miralles, Köhler, Glaw, Wollenberg Valero, Crottini, Rosa, Du Preez, Gehring, Vieites, Ratsoavina et Vences, 2023
- Gephyromantis feomborona Miralles, Köhler, Glaw, Wollenberg Valero, Crottini, Rosa, Du Preez, Gehring, Vieites, Ratsoavina et Vences, 2023
- Gephyromantis blanci Guibé, 1974
- Gephyromantis enki (Glaw and Vences, 2002)
- Gephyromantis runewsweeki Vences and De la Riva, 2007
- boulangeri complex
- Gephyromantis mafifeo Miralles, Köhler, Glaw, Wollenberg Valero, Crottini, Rosa, Du Preez, Gehring, Vieites, Ratsoavina et Vences, 2023
- Gephyromantis sergei Miralles, Köhler, Glaw, Wollenberg Valero, Crottini, Rosa, Du Preez, Gehring, Vieites, Ratsoavina et Vences, 2023
- Gephyromantis boulengeri Methuen, 1920
- Gephyromantis kremenae Miralles, Köhler, Glaw, Wollenberg Valero, Crottini, Rosa, Du Preez, Gehring, Vieites, Ratsoavina et Vences, 2023
- Gephyromantis mitsinjo Miralles, Köhler, Glaw, Wollenberg Valero, Crottini, Rosa, Du Preez, Gehring, Vieites, Ratsoavina et Vences, 2023
- decaryi complex
- Cladogramm of Gephyromantis subgenus:[6]
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- Vatomantis Glaw & Vences, 2006
- Gephyromantis lomorina Scherz, Hawlitschek, Razafindraibe, Megson, Ratsoavina, Rakotoarison, Bletz, Glaw & Vences, 2018
- Gephyromantis webbi (Grandison, 1953)
- Gephyromantis rivicola (Vences, Glaw, and Andreone, 1997)
- Gephyromantis silvanus (Vences, Glaw, and Andreone, 1997)
- Laurentomantis Dubois, 1980
- Gephyromantis klemmeri Guibé, 1974[7]
- Gephyromantis horridus (Boettger, 1880)
- Gephyromantis ranjomavo Glaw and Vences, 2011
- Gephyromantis striatus (Vences, Glaw, Andreone, Jesu, and Schimmenti, 2002)
- Gephyromantis malagasius (Methuen and Hewitt, 1913)
- Gephyromantis ventrimaculatus (Angel, 1935)
- Cladogramm of Vatomantis and Laurentomantis subgenera:[7]
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- Phylacomantis Glaw & Vences, 1994
- Gephyromantis corvus (Glaw and Vences, 1994)
- Gephyromantis pseudoasper (Guibé, 1974)
- Gephyromantis azzurrae Mercurio and Andreone, 2007
- Gephyromantis atsingy Crottini, Glaw, Casiraghi, Jenkins, Mercurio, Randrianantoandro, Randrianirina, and Andreone, 2011
- Duboimantis Glaw & Vences, 2006
- Gephyromantis luteus (Methuen and Hewitt, 1913)
- Gephyromantis sculpturatus (Ahl, 1929)
- Gephyromantis plicifer (Boulenger, 1882)
- Gephyromantis salegy (Andreone, Aprea, Vences, and Odierna, 2003)
- Gephyromantis tandroka (Glaw and Vences, 2001)
- Gephyromantis moseri (Glaw and Vences, 2002)
- Gephyromantis schilfi (Glaw and Vences, 2000)
- Gephyromantis tohatra Scherz, Razafindraibe, Rakotoarison, Dixit, Bletz, Glaw and Vences, 2017
- Gephyromantis tschenki (Glaw and Vences, 2001)
- Gephyromantis cornutus (Glaw and Vences, 1992)
- Gephyromantis redimitus (Boulenger, 1889)
- Gephyromantis granulatus (Boettger, 1881)
- Gephyromantis zavona (Vences, Andreone, Glaw, and Randrianirina, 2003)
- Gephyromantis leucomaculatus (Guibé, 1975)
- Gephyromantis saturnini Scherz, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Hawlitschek, Vences & Glaw, 2018
- Gephyromantis grosjeani Scherz, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Hawlitschek, Vences & Glaw, 2018
- Asperomantis Vences, Köhler, Pabijan, Bletz, Gehring, Hawlitschek, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Andreone, Crottini & Glaw, 2017
- Gephyromantis asper (Boulenger, 1882)
- Gephyromantis spiniferus (Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991)
- Gephyromantis ambohitra (Vences and Glaw, 2001)
- Gephyromantis tahotra Glaw, Köhler, and Vences, 2011
- Gephyromantis ceratophrys (Ahl, 1929)
- Gephyromantis angano Scherz, Vences, Borrell, Ball, Nomenjanahary, Parker, Rakotondratsima, Razafimandimby, Starnes, Rabearivony and Glaw, 2017
References
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- ^ Frost, Darrel R. "Gephyromantis Methuen, 1920". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ Vences, Miguel; Köhler, Jörn; Pabijan, Maciej; Bletz, Molly; Gehring, Philip-Sebastian; Hawlitschek, Oliver; Rakotoarison, Andolalao; Ratsoavina, Fanomazena M.; Andreone, Franco; Crottini, Angelica; Glaw, Frank (2017). "Taxonomy and geographic distribution of Malagasy frogs of the Gephyromantis asper clade, with description of a new subgenus and revalidation of Gephyromantis ceratophrys". Salamandra. 53: 77–98.
- ^ Methuen, P. A. (1920). "Descriptions of a new snake from the Transvaal, together with a new diagnosis and key to the genus Xenocalamus, and of some Batrachia from Madagascar". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1919: 349–355.
- ^ Blommers-Schlösser, R. M. A. (1979). "Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs I. Mantellinae (Ranidae)". Beaufortia. 29: 1–77.
- ^ Glaw, Frank; Vences, Miguel (2006). "Phylogeny and genus-level classification of mantellid frogs (Amphibia, Anura)". Organisms, Diversity & Evolution. 6 (2006): 236–253. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2005.12.001.
- ^ Aurélien Miralles; Jörn Köhler; Frank Glaw; et al. (15 February 2023). "An endless harvest: integrative revision of the Gephyromantis boulengeri and G. blanci complexes reveals six new species of mantellid frogs from Madagascar". Salamandra. 59 (1): 1–41. ISSN 0036-3375. Wikidata Q117357207.
- ^ a b Mark D. Scherz; Oliver Hawlitschek; Jary Harinarivo Razafindraibe; et al. (15 March 2018). "A distinctive new frog species (Anura, Mantellidae) supports the biogeographic linkage of two montane rainforest massifs in northern Madagascar". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 94 (2): 247–261. doi:10.3897/ZSE.94.21037. ISSN 1860-0743. Wikidata Q54802270.