''Guibemantis'' is a
frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is ...
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
in the
mantellid subfamily Mantellinae
Mantellinae is a subfamily of frogs in the family Mantellidae. These frogs are native to Madagascar and Mayotte. The species vary in size from under 25 mm (e.g. some species of '' Blommersia'') to over 100 mm (e.g. '' Mantidactylus gut ...
. This genus is restricted to Madagascar. At present it contains 16 species divided into two
subgenera.
Taxonomy
The genus ''Guibemantis'' was erected as a
subgenus of ''
Mantidactylus'' by Dubois in 1992 with the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...
''
Guibemantis depressiceps''.
It was elevated to genus-level in 2006.
In 1994, the
subgenus ''
Pandanusicola'' was erected for a group of species that are strongly associated with
Pandanus screw-palms.
It was originally proposed as an additional subgenus of ''Mantidactylus'', but when ''Guibemantis'' was elevated to genus-level in 2006, ''Pandanusicola'' was made a subgenus of it.
Species
This genus is divided into two subgenera:
* ''Guibemantis''
Dubois, 1992
:* ''
Guibemantis depressiceps''
( Boulenger, 1882)
:* ''
Guibemantis kathrinae''
( Glaw, Vences, and Gossmann, 2000)
:* ''
Guibemantis timidus''
( Vences and Glaw, 2005)
:* ''
Guibemantis tornieri''
(Ahl, 1928)
* ''
Pandanusicola''
Glaw & Vences, 1994
:* ''
Guibemantis albolineatus''
( Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991)
:* ''
Guibemantis albomaculatus''
Lehtinen, Glaw, Vences, Rakotoarison & Scherz, 2018
:* ''
Guibemantis annulatus''
Lehtinen, Glaw, and Vences, 2011
:* ''
Guibemantis bicalcaratus''
( Boettger, 1913)
:* ''
Guibemantis diphonus''
Vences, Jovanovic, Safarek, Glaw, and Köhler, 2015
:* ''
Guibemantis flavobrunneus''
( Blommers-Schlösser, 1979)
:* ''
Guibemantis liber''
( Peracca, 1893)
:* ''
Guibemantis methueni''
(Angel, 1929)
:* ''
Guibemantis milingilingy''
Bletz, Scherz, Rakotoarison, Lehtinen, Glaw & Vences, 2018
:* ''
Guibemantis pulcher''
(Boulenger, 1882)
:* ''
Guibemantis punctatus''
( Blommers-Schlösser, 1979)
:* ''
Guibemantis tasifotsy''
Lehtinen, Glaw, Andreone, Pabijan, and Vences, 2012
:* ''
Guibemantis wattersoni''
Lehtinen, Glaw, and Vences, 2011
:* ''
Guibemantis woosteri''
Lehtinen, Glaw, Vences, Rakotoarison & Scherz, 2018
References
Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa
Endemic fauna of Madagascar
Mantellidae
Amphibian genera
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