Mantidactylus ambony

Henrique, Pedro, Dias, Santos, Florencia, Candioti, Wassersug, Richard, Lukas, Paul, Targino, Mariane, Glos, Julian, Wheeler, Ward C., Hertwig, Stefan, Croưini, Angelica & Haas, Alexander, 2024, Stranger things: on the novel buccopharyngeal anatomy and functional morphology of ‘ sand-eating’ Malagasy tadpoles (Anura: Mantellidae: Mantidactylus %, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202 : -

Mantidactylus ambony

Oral disc: Oral configuration is described and illustrated in Randrianiaina et al. (2011a; as M. ambreensis %, and reproduced here ( Fig. 1 %. SEM micrographs show the strong serration of the upper jaw sheath ( Fig. 3A %.

&uccal floor ( Fig. 3B %: Almost identical to M. ambreensis configuration; crests of the buccal floor with slightly smaller ruffled ridges (100–155 µm long, 23–76 µm wide%.

&uccal roof ( Fig. 3C %: Features of the prenarial, narial, and dorsal velum regions unfortunately could not be observed. Other features as in M. ambreensis , except less numerous buccal roof arena papillae (about 20 on each side%.