| Mantidactylus betsileanus | |
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| Ranomafana National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Mantellidae |
| Genus: | Mantidactylus |
| Species: | M. betsileanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Mantidactylus betsileanus (Boulenger, 1882) | |
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Mantidactylus betsileanus is a species of frog in the family Mantellidae. It is endemic to Madagascar.[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.
Breeding takes place in streams, pools, puddles, and rice fields (Vences and Nussbaum 2008)
Possible reasons for amphibian decline
General habitat alteration and loss
Habitat modification from deforestation, or logging related activities
Habitat fragmentation
References
- ↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2017). "Mantidactylus betsileanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T57463A84169618. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T57463A84169618.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ↑ Glaw, Frank; Vences, Miguel (2007). A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar (3rd ed.). Cologne, Germany: Vences & Glaw Verlags. ISBN 978-3929449037.
2)Edmonds, D., Kessler, E. and Bolte, L. (2019), How common is common? Rapidly assessing population size and structure of the frog Mantidactylus betsileanus at a site in east‐central Madagascar. Austral Ecology