Mantidactylus

Belongs within: Mantellidae.

Mantidactylus is a Madagascan genus of frogs with free-swimming tadpoles. Females usually possess small femoral glands.

<==Mantidactylus Boulenger 1895FG06
    |  i. s.: M. betsileanusFG06
    |         M. eiseltiFG06
    |         M. grandisonaeFG06
    |         M. guttulatusEJK08
    |         M. microtympanumMC02
    |         M. peraccaeFG06
    |         M. witteiFG06
    |--M. grandidieriPW11
    `--+--M. argenteusPW11
       `--+--M. lugubrisPW11
          `--+--+--M. biporusPW11
             |  `--+--M. charlotteaePW11
             |     `--M. opiparisPW11
             `--+--M. ulcerosusPW11
                `--+--M. ambreensisPW11
                   `--+--M. femoralisPW11
                      `--M. mocquardiPW11

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[EJK08] Evans, S. E., M. E. H. Jones & D. W. Krause. 2008. A giant frog with South American affinities from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105 (8): 2951–2956.

[FG06] Frost, D. R., T. Grant, J. Faivovich, R. H. Bain, A. Haas, C. F. B. Haddad, R. O. de Sá, A. Channing, M. Wilkinson, S. C. Donnellan, C. J. Raxworthy, J. A. Campbell, B. L. Blotto, P. Moler, R. C. Drewes, R. A. Nussbaum, J. D. Lynch, D. M. Green & W. C. Wheeler. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370.

[MC02] Monnet, J.-M., & M. I. Cherry. 2002. Sexual size dimorphism in anurans. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B—Biological Sciences 269: 2301–2307.

[PW11] Pyron, R. A., & J. J. Wiens. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 543–583.