Mantellidae

Mantella aurantiaca

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Mantellidae
Subfamiliae (3): Boophinae – Laliostominae – Mantellinae

Name

Mantellidae Laurent, 1946

• Type genus: Mantella Boulenger, 1882.

Synonymy

• Mantellinae Laurent, 1946: 336 [original rank, as subfamilia]
• Mantellidae — Blommers-Schlösser & Blanc, 1991: 134 [subsequent rank, elevated to familia]
• Boophinae Vences & Glaw, 2001: 88 [original rank, as subfamilia]
• Laliostominae Vences & Glaw, 2001: 88 [original rank, as subfamilia]
• Mantellini — Dubois, 2005: 16 [subsequent rank]
• Laliostomini — Dubois, 2005: 16 [subsequent rank]
• Boophini — Dubois, 2005: 16 [subsequent rank]

References

Primary references

• Laurent, R.F. 1946. Mises au point dans la taxonomie des ranides. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 39: 336–338.

Additional references

• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 
• Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2006. Phylogeny and genus-level classification of mantellid frogs (Amphibia, Anura). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 6(3): 236–253. DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2005.12.001 Reference page. 
• Kurabayashi, A., Sumida, M., Yonekawa, H., Glaw, F., Vences, M. & Hasegawa, M. 2008. Phylogeny, Recombination, and Mechanisms of Stepwise Mitochondrial Genome Reorganization in Mantellid Frogs from Madagascar. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25(5): 874–891. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn031 Reference page. 
• Blackburn, D.C. & Wake, D.B. 2011. Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. Pp 39–55 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  Reference page. 
• Pyron, R.A. & Wiens, J.J. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(2): 543–583. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012 Reference page. 
• Wollenberg, K.C., Vieites, D.R., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2011. Speciation in little: the role of range and body size in the diversification of Malagasy mantellid frogs. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 217. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-217 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Madagaskarfrösche
English: Madagascar Frogs
日本語: マダガスカルカエル科
Nederlands: Gouden kikkers

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