Biology:Brown mantella

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Short description: Species of frog

Brown mantella
Mantella betsileo02.jpg
Brown Mantella (Mantella betsileo) underside (9575069783).jpg
Individuals showing the dull upperside (above) and the conspicuously marked underparts (below)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Mantellidae
Genus: Mantella
Species:
M. betsileo
Binomial name
Mantella betsileo
(Grandidier, 1872)

The brown mantella (Mantella betsileo) is a species of frog in the family Mantellidae. It is endemic to Madagascar . Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2017). "Mantella betsileo". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T57440A84166187. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T57440A84166187.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/57440/84166187. Retrieved 17 November 2021. 


Wikidata ☰ Q2274193 entry