Guibemantis Explained

Guibemantis is a frog genus in the mantellid subfamily Mantellinae. This genus is restricted to Madagascar. At present it contains 25 species divided into two subgenera.^[1]

Taxonomy

The genus Guibemantis was erected as a subgenus of Mantidactylus by Dubois in 1992 with the type species Guibemantis depressiceps.^[2] It was elevated to genus-level in 2006.^[3]

In 1994, the subgenus Pandanusicola was erected for a group of species that are strongly associated with Pandanus screw-palms.^[4] 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 ambakoana (Gabriel, Rothe, Kohler, Rakotomanga, Edmonds, Galan, Glaw, Lehtinen, Rakotoarison & Vences, 2024)^[5]

• 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 fotsitenda(Koppetsch, Pabijan, Hutter, Köhler, Gehring, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Scherz, Vieites, Glaw & Vences, 2023)^[6]

• Guibemantis liber (Peracca, 1893)

• Guibemantis methueni (Angel, 1929)

• Guibemantis milingilingy (Bletz, Scherz, Rakotoarison, Lehtinen, Glaw & Vences, 2018)

• Guibemantis pulcher (Boulenger, 1882)

• Guibemantis pulcherrimus (Vences, Hutter, Glaw, Rakotoarison, Raselimanana & Scherz, 2023)

• Guibemantis punctatus (Blommers-Schlösser, 1979)

• Guibemantis razandry (Koppetsch, Pabijan, Hutter, Köhler, Gehring, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Scherz, Vieites, Glaw & Vences, 2023^[7]

• Guibemantis razoky Koppetsch, Pabijan, Hutter, Köhler, Gehring, Rakotoarison, Ratsoavina, Scherz, Vieites, Glaw & Vences, 2023^[8]

• Guibemantis rianasoa (Gabriel, Rothe, Kohler, Rakotomanga, Edmonds, Galan, Glaw, Lehtinen, Rakotoarison & Vences, 2024)^[9]

• Guibemantis tasifotsy (Lehtinen, Glaw, Andreone, Pabijan, and Vences, 2012)

• Guibemantis vakoa, (Gabriel, Rothe, Kohler, Rakotomanga, Edmonds, Galan, Glaw, Lehtinen, Rakotoarison & Vences, 2024)^[10]

• Guibemantis wattersoni (Lehtinen, Glaw, and Vences, 2011)

• Guibemantis woosteri (Lehtinen, Glaw, Vences, Rakotoarison & Scherz, 2018)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frost. Darrel R.. Guibemantis Dubois, 1992. Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. 7 May 2016.
2. Dubois. A.. Notes sur la classification des Ranidae (Amphibiens anoures). Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 1992. 61. 10. 305–352. 10.3406/linly.1992.11011.
3. 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.
4. Book: Glaw. Frank. Vences. Miguel. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. 1994. Vences & Glaw Verlags GmbH. Cologne, Germany. 480.
5. Web site: Guibemantis ambakoana. 8 May 2024.
6. Web site: Guibemantis fotsitenda. 8 May 2024.
7. Web site: Guibemantis razandry . 8 May 2024.
8. Web site: Guibemantis razoky . 8 May 2024.
9. Web site: Guibemantis rianasoa. 8 May 2024.
10. Web site: Guibemantis vakoa. 8 May 2024.