Gephyromantis Explained

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]}

Taxonomy

The 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

This genus is divided into six subgenera:

• 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
    • 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

Cladogramm of Gephyromantis subgenus:

• 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

• 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:^[6]

• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frost. Darrel R.. Gephyromantis Methuen, 1920. Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. 7 May 2016.
2. Vences. Miguel. Köhler. Jörn. Pabijan. Maciej. Bletz. Molly. Gehring. Philip-Sebastian. Hawlitschek. Oliver. Rakotoarison. Andolalao. Ratsoavina. Fanomazena M.. Andreone. Franco. Crottini. Angelica. Glaw. Frank. Taxonomy and geographic distribution of Malagasy frogs of the Gephyromantis asper clade, with description of a new subgenus and revalidation of Gephyromantis ceratophrys. Salamandra. 2017. 53. 77–98.
3. Methuen. P. A.. 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. 1920. 1919. 349–355.
4. Blommers-Schlösser. R. M. A.. Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs I. Mantellinae (Ranidae).. Beaufortia. 1979. 29. 1–77.
5. Glaw. Frank. Vences. Miguel. Phylogeny and genus-level classification of mantellid frogs (Amphibia, Anura). Organisms, Diversity & Evolution. 2006. 6. 2006. 236–253. 10.1016/j.ode.2005.12.001. free.
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