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Issue: Vol. 3925 No. 1: 26 Feb. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-02-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.1.8
Page range: 120–128
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 1

Beautiful bright belly: A distinctive new microhylid frog (Amphibia: Stumpffia) from eastern Madagascar

Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstraße 21, 81247 München, Germany.
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, CH 4001 Basel, Switzerland.
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Via G. Giolitti, 36, I-10123 Torino, Italy.
Association Mitsinjo, Lot 104 A Gare, Andasibe 514, Madagascar.
Association Mitsinjo, Lot 104 A Gare, Andasibe 514, Madagascar.
Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstr. 4, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Amphibia Anura Cophylinae Madagascar Microhylidae Stumpffia kibomena sp. nov.

Abstract

We describe a new red-bellied species of the microhylid frog genus Stumpffia from the Andasibe region (18°56' S, 48°25' E, ca. 900 m elevation) in central-eastern Madagascar. Stumpffia kibomena sp. nov. differs from all other described Stumpffia species in coloration, morphology, and by genetic differentiation in the mitochondrial 16S  rRNA gene (≥8.6% uncorrected p-distance to all other nominal species of the genus). It is furthermore distinguished from most other Stumpffia species by its advertisement calls. The new species is reliably known only from a few specimens collected in the Andasibe region and based on the limited knowledge we suggest its IUCN Red List classification as "Data Deficient".