Mantidactylus (Mantidactylus) grandidieri Mocquard 1895

Mantidactylus (Mantidactylus) grandidieri Mocquard, 1895 Syntypes. Two specimens, MNHN 1883.580 and MNHN 1895.255 collected by Humblot and Grandidier, from ' Madagascar... côte Est'. Referred material. For field numbers of additional specimens referred to M. grandidieri genetically, see Figure 1. For morphological measurements of types and additional six specimens in the ZSM collection, see Table 1. Remarks. Mantidactylus (M.) grandidieri is a large nocturnal stream-dwelling frog, distributed at elevations from near sea level (Nosy Mangabe) to ca. 1500 m a.s.l. (Ambohitantely), but appears to be more common at low elevations M. guttulatus, the definition of this species has changed multiple times in the past. A complete revision of all these uses in the literature is beyond the scope of this paper. Glaw and Vences (2007) partially following Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc (1991) used the name M. grandidieri primarily to refer to highland populations in the Northern Central East and Southern Central East, which, according to the present revision, are to be referred to as M. guttulatus. Instead, populations of M. grandidieri were named Mantidactylus sp. aff. grandidieri 'North' by Glaw and Vences (2007), Mantidactylus sp. 57 by Vieites et al. (2009) and Mantidactylus sp. Ca57 by Perl et al. (2014).
Published as part of Rancilhac, Loïs, Bruy, Teddy, Scherz, Mark D., Pereira, Elvis Almeida, Preick, Michaela, Straube, Nicolas, Lyra, Mariana L., Ohler, Annemarie, Streicher, Jeffrey W., Andreone, Franco, Crottini, Angelica, Hutter, Carl R., Randrianantoandro, J. Christian, Rakotoarison, Andolalao, Glaw, Frank, Hofreiter, Michael & Vences, Miguel, 2020, Target-enriched DNA sequencing from historical type material enables a partial revision of the Madagascar giant stream frogs (genus Mantidactylus), pp. 87-118 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 54 (1 - 4) on page 107, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1748243, http://zenodo.org/record/5020653
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