Biology:Blommersia

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Short description: Genus of amphibians

Blommersia
Blommersia angolafa.jpg
Blommersia angolafa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Mantellidae
Subfamily: Mantellinae
Genus: Blommersia
Dubois, 1992
Type species
Gephyromantis blommersae
Guibé, 1975
Diversity
11 species

Blommersia is a genus of frogs in the mantellid subfamily Mantellinae. This genus is restricted to Madagascar. At present it contains 11 species. It was formerly a subgenus of the genus Mantidactylus[1] but was elevated to genus-level in 2006.[2]

Species

Image Scientific name Distribution
Blommersia angolafa.jpg Blommersia angolafa Andreone, Rosa, Noël, Crottini, Vences, and Raxworthy, 2010 eastern Madagascar
Blommersia bara Vences, Multzsch, Köhler, Crottini, Andreone, Rakotoarison, Scherz & Glaw, 2023 Madagascar
Blommersia blommersae 01.jpg Blommersia blommersae (Guibé, 1975) Madagascar
Blommersia dejongi Vences, Köhler, Pabijan, and Glaw, 2010 Madagascar
Blommersia domerguei (Guibé, 1974) Madagascar
Blommersia galani Vences, Köhler, Pabijan, and Glaw, 2010 east coast of Madagascar
Mantidactylus grandisonae.jpg Blommersia grandisonae (Guibé, 1974) Madagascar
Blommersia kely (Glaw and Vences, 1994) Madagascar
Blommersia sarotra (Glaw and Vences, 2002) Madagascar
Blommersia transmarina Glaw, Hawlitschek, Glaw K., and Vences, 2019 Comoros Islands
Blommersia variabilis Pabijan, Gehring, Köhler, Glaw, and Vences, 2011 north-eastern Madagascar
Blommersia wittei (Guibé, 1974) Madagascar

References

  1. Dubois, A. (1992). "Notes sur la classification des Ranidae (Amphibiens anoures)". Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 61 (10): 305–352. doi:10.3406/linly.1992.11011. 
  2. Glaw, Frank; Vences, Miguel (2006). "Phylogeny and genus-level classification of mantellid frogs (Amphibia, Anura)". Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 6 (2006): 236–253. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2005.12.001. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1608161 entry