AMPHIBIA: ANURA: FAMILY: Mantella

Mantella madagascariensis Grandidier, 1872  

Painted mantella

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Range: Madagascar.

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Literature: Click on book to order.

Glaw, Frank and Miguel Vences. 1994. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Second edition. Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. ISBN: 3-929449-01-3.

Henkel, F-W. and Wolfgang Schmidt. 1995. Amphibien und Reptilien Madagaskars, der Maskarenen, Seychellen und Komoren. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart. [In German.] ISBN: 3-8001-7323-9.  

Hofricher, Robert (editor). 2000. Amphibians: the world of frogs, toads, salamanders and newts. Firefly Books. ISBN: 1-55209-541-X.

Staniszewski, Marc. 1995(?). Mantellas in captivity. Reptilian Magazine 4(1): 16-26.