Mantella viridis Pintak & Böhme

Jovanovic, Olga, Glos, Julian, Glaw, Frank, Randrianiaina, Roger-Daniel & Vences, Miguel, 2009, Comparative larval morphology in Madagascan frogs of the genus Mantella (Amphibia: Mantellidae), Zootaxa 2124, pp. 21-37 : 32-33

Mantella viridis Pintak & Böhme

The description is based on a tadpole in Gosner stage 34 from the series of tadpoles catalogued as ZSM 797/ 2004 (figure 9) (3 tadpoles). DNA sequence from mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene is deposited in Genbank (accession number FJ830850 ). The examined specimen had the following measurements: BL 7.5 mm, BH 3.1 mm, BW 4.6 mm, TMH 1.8 mm, TMW 2.2 mm, MTH 3.2 mm, TMHM 1.4 mm, ED 0.9 mm, IOD 2.3 mm, IND 1.8 mm, ODW 2.0 mm, TAL 11.5 mm, TL 19.1 mm, TN 76, PN 63. The mouth opens ventrally. The papillae are rounded, biserial in the lower labium and in the lateral side of upper labium. The jaw sheath is thick, fully pigmented and with fewer big serrations. The upper jaw sheath has M-shape. TAL/TL is 60%. The labial tooth row formula is 5(2–5)/3(1).

Other tadpoles from the series are catalogued as ZSM 796/2004 (1 tadpole), 798/2004 (3 tadpoles) and ZSM 1574/2004 (2 tadpoles). Tadpoles from series ZSM 796/2004 and 798/2004 were collected by RDR in the field on 20 February 2003 in Montagne des Français, in Madagascar, while tadpoles from the series ZSM 1574/2004 are obtained through captive breeding, from parental specimens without precise collecting locality, in 1996. Variation is shown in tables 4 and 6–7. Some specimens have an uniserial row of marginal papillae.