Mantidactylus zolitschka

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 zolitschka

Oral disc: Oral configuration is described and illustrated in Randrianiaina et al. (2011a % and reproduced here ( Fig. 1 %. SEM micrographs show the M-shaped upper jaw sheath, keratinized and finely serrated ( Fig. 7A %. Ŋe lower jaw sheath is º-shaped, poorly keratinized, and marginally serrated ( Fig. 7B %. Details of labial teeth could not be observed.

&uccal floor ( Fig. 7B, C %: Four pairs of tall, conical infra-labial papillae overlapping each other. Buccal floor arena delimited by two long, thick crests formed of about 15 transverse ruffled ridges closely spaced (120–250 µm long, 100–340 µm wide%. Gloưis not visible.

&uccal roof ( Fig. 7D %: Prenarial arena with a wide inverted-º crest with smooth margin. Internal nares with a long, conical,

pustulated papilla at the anterolateral edge. Central area of buccal roof arena smooth, with low pustulations scaưered.