Mantella bernhardi Vences, Glaw, Peyrieras, Böhme & Busse

Jovanovic, Olga, Glos, Julian, Glaw, Frank, Randrianiaina, Roger-Daniel & Vences, Miguel, 2009, Comparative larval morphology in Madagascan frogs of the genus Mantella (Amphibia: Mantellidae), Zootaxa 2124, pp. 21-37 : 26-28

Mantella bernhardi Vences, Glaw, Peyrieras, Böhme & Busse

The description is based on a tadpole in Gosner stage 35 from the series of 7 tadpoles catalogued as ZSM 835/ 2004, collected by M. Vences on 10 February 2004 in small puddles in a swampy area near a lowland rainforest stream, in Vevembe forest (22°47.686' S, 47°11.228' E, 581 m above sea level) (figure 3). DNA sequence from mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene is deposited in Genbank (accession number FJ830851 ). The examined specimen had the following measurements: BL 9.2 mm, BH 4.7 mm, BW 5.5 mm, TMH 2.0 mm, TMW 2.3 mm, MTH 4.3 mm, TMHM 1.6 mm, ED 0.9 mm, IOD 2.3 mm, IND 1.6 mm, ODW 2.0 mm, TAL 17.7 mm, TL 26.9 mm, TN 78, PN 47. The mouth opens anteroventrally. The papillae are rounded, uniserial in the lower labium and in the lateral side of upper labium. The jaw sheath is thin, fully pigmented and finely serrated. TAL/TL is 66%. The labial tooth row formula is 5(2–5)/3(1). Variation is shown in tables 3–5, and 7.

measurements given in millimetres. For abbreviations see table 1 and chapter Materials and methods.

measurements given in millimetres. For abbreviations see table 1 and chapter Materials and methods.

measurements given in millimetres. For abbreviations see table 1 and chapter Materials and methods.