Mantella pulchra Parker

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 : 31

Mantella pulchra Parker

The description is based on a tadpole in Gosner stage 28 from the series of tadpoles catalogued as ZSM 1 / 2008 (figure 8) ( 7 tadpoles), collected at An'Ala forest, on 8 February 2006 by L. Raharivololoniaina and R. D. Randrianiaina. DNA sequence from mitochondrial 16 S rRNA gene is deposited in Genbank (accession number FJ 830849 ). The examined specimen had the following measurements: BL 7.1 mm, BH 3.9 mm, BW 5.3 mm, TMH 2.0 mm, TMW 2.0 mm, MTH 3.9 mm, TMHM 1.3 mm, ED 0.8 mm, IOD 2.4 mm, IND 1.6 mm, ODW 1.9 mm, TAL 13.1 mm, TL 20.2 mm, TN 74, PN 50. The mouth opens anteroventrally. The papillae are rounded, uniserial in the lower labium and in the lateral side of upper labium. The jaw sheath is middle sized, fully pigmented and finely serrated. TAL/TL is 65 %. The labial tooth row formula is 5 ( 2–5)/ 3 ( 1). Variation is shown in tables 3–4, and 6–7.