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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Anura
Subordo: Neobatrachia
Familia: Mantellidae
Subfamilia: Mantellinae
Genus: Blommersia
Species: B. blommersae - B. domerguei - B. grandisonae - B. kely - B. sarotra - B. wittei

Name

Blommersia Dubois, 1992

Type species: Gephyromantis blommersae Guibé, 1975

References

* Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 311.
* Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 242
* Amphibian Species of the World 5.1 Blommersia access date 07 June 2008


Vernacular names
English: Madagascar Frogs

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 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

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.
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.

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