Mantidactylus femoralis (Boulenger, 1882)

Andreone, F., Glaw, F., Nussbaum, R. A., Raxworthy, C. J., Vences, M. & Randrianirina, J. E., 2003, The amphibians and reptiles of Nosy Be (NW Madagascar) and nearby islands: a case study of diversity and conservation of an insular fauna, Journal of Natural History 37 (17), pp. 2119-2149 : 2147

(5) Mantidactylus femoralis . Quoted by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc (1991, 1993). According to present information the northernmost locality for M. femoralis is Montagne d’Ambre, where it occurs in syntopy with M. ambreensis (Raxworthy and Nussbaum, 1994) , while at Sambirano only M. ambreensis is known (Glaw and Vences, 1994). No specimen of either M. femoralis or M. ambreensis is held at Amsterdam or Paris. At Nosy Be the occurrence of M. femoralis is therefore doubtful, and in absence of voucher specimens we exclude it from its fauna.