Gephyromantis

Gephyromantis
Gephyromantis (Phylacomantis) pseudoasper
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Superfamily: Ranoidea
Family: Mantellidae
Subfamily: Mantellinae
Genus: Gephyromantis
Methuen, 1920
Type species
Gephyromantis boulengeri
Methuen, 1920
Synonyms
  • Microphryne Methuen and Hewitt, 1913
  • Trachymantis Methuen, 1920

Gephyromantis is a genus of frogs in the mantellid subfamily Mantellinae. Species of the genus are endemic to Madagascar.

Taxonomy

The genus Gephyromantis was erected by Methuen in 1920 for the species Gephyromantis boulengeri. Blommers-Schlösser considered this group as a subgenus of Mantidactylus, but it was re-elevated to genus-level in 2006. There are over 60 species recognised in the genus Gephyromantis.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Gephyromantis:

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Blommers-Schlösser, R. M. A. (1979). "Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs I. Mantellinae (Ranidae)". Beaufortia. 29: 1–77.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "Gephyromantis Methuen, 1920 | Amphibian Species of the World". amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org. Retrieved 2026-10-13.