| acoustic underwater signals with a probable function during competitive feeding in a tadpole. | acoustic communication is widespread among adult stages of terrestrial animals and fish and has also been observed in insect larvae. we report underwater acoustic communication in the larvae of a frog, gephyromantis azzurrae, from isalo, a sandstone massif in western madagascar. according to our field data, these tadpoles live in streams and prefer habitats characterized by comparatively low temperatures, shallow water depth, and a relatively fast current. feeding experiments indicated that the ... | 2011 | 21161155 |
| a new gephyromantis (phylacomantis) frog species from the pinnacle karst of bemaraha, western madagascar. | we describe a new mantellid frog of the subfamily mantellinae from the karstic bemaraha plateau, western madagascar. the new species belongs to the genus gephyromantis, subgenus phylacomantis, which previously included gephyromantis azzurrae, gephyromantis corvus and gephyromantis pseudoasper. gephyromantis atsingysp. n. has a snout-vent length of 35-43 mm and is a scansorial frog living among the tsingy de bemaraha pinnacles and inside the caves present in the area. a morphological analysis and ... | 2011 | 21594161 |
| resolving a taxonomic and nomenclatural puzzle in mantellid frogs: synonymization of gephyromantis azzurrae with g. corvus, and description of gephyromantis kintana sp. nov. from the isalo massif, western madagascar. | the genus gephyromantis belongs to the species-rich family mantellidae and is currently divided in six subgenera. among these is the subgenus phylacomantis, which currently includes four described species: gephyromantis pseudoasper, g. corvus, g. azzurrae, and g. atsingy. the latter three species are distributed in western madagascar, and two of them (g. azzurrae and g. corvus) occur in the isalo massif. based on the analysis of molecular data (a fragment of the 16s rrna gene), morphological ins ... | 2020 | 32774110 |