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

Zootaxa

Volumn 3925, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 120-128

  Glaw, Frank ^a   Vallan, Denis ^b   Andreone, Franco ^c   Edmonds, Devin ^d   Dolch, Rainer ^d   Vences, Miguel ^e  

^a ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^b NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c MUSEO REGIONALE DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

^d ASSOCIATION MITSINJO   (Madagascar)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Anura; Cophylinae; Madagascar; Microhylidae; Stumpffia kibomena sp. nov.

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; COPHYLINAE; MICROHYLIDAE; STUMPFFIA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANURA; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MADAGASCAR; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ANURA; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MADAGASCAR; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84930608330     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.1.8     Document Type: Article

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