Brown mantella
Brown mantella | |
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Individuals showing the dull upperside (above) and the conspicuously marked underparts (below) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Mantellidae |
Genus: | Mantella |
Species: | M. betsileo
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Binomial name | |
Mantella betsileo (Grandidier, 1872)
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The brown mantella (Mantella betsileo) is a species of frog in the family Mantellidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References[]
- ^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2017). "Mantella betsileo". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T57440A84166187. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T57440A84166187.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Mantella
- Amphibians described in 1872
- Endemic frogs of Madagascar
- Taxa named by Alfred Grandidier
- Mantellidae stubs