Gephyromantis

Gephyromantis
Gephyromantis (Phylacomantis) pseudoasper
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Clade:	Ranoidea
Family:	Mantellidae
Subfamily:	Mantellinae
Genus:	Gephyromantis Methuen, 1920
Type species
Gephyromantis boulengeri Methuen, 1920
Diversity
47 species in six subgenera
Synonyms
MicrophryneMethuen and Hewitt, 1913 TrachymantisMethuen, 1920

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:^{[ citation needed ]}

• GephyromantisMethuen, 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  ( ia )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
  • boulengeri 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: ^[6]

decaryi complex	G. leucocephalus G. decaryi G. verrucosus G. hintelmannae
	eiselti complex G. eiselti G. mafy G. thelenae G. cornucopia sp. n. G. feomborona sp. n. G. blanci G. enki G. runewsweeki boulangeri complex G. mafifeo sp. n. G. sergei sp. n. G. boulangeri G. kremenae sp. n. G. mitsinjo sp. n.

• 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]

Vatomantis	G. lomorina G. webbi G. rivicola G. silvanus
Laurentomantis	G. klemmeri G. horridus G. ranjomavo G. striatus G. malagasius G. ventrimaculatus

• 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

1. Frost, Darrel R. "Gephyromantis Methuen, 1920". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. Retrieved 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 (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.
3. 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.
4. Blommers-Schlösser, R. M. A. (1979). "Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs I. Mantellinae (Ranidae)". Beaufortia. 29: 1–77.
5. 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 .
6. 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.
7. 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.