Mantella madagascariensis (Grandidier)

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 madagascariensis (Grandidier)

The description is based on two tadpoles in Gosner stages 41 and 42, catalogued as ZSM 1425/2004 (figure 7), obtained through captive breeding, from parental specimens without precise collecting locality, in 1996–1998 (see Glaw et al. 2000). The examined specimen had the following measurements: BL 9.4 mm, BH 4.6 mm, BW 7.3 mm, TMH 2.3 mm, TMW 3.3 mm, MTH 5.0 mm, TMHM 2.5 mm, ED 1.3 mm, IOD 3.7 mm, IND 1.8 mm, ODW 2.2 mm, TAL 23.1 mm, TL 32.5 mm. The mouth opens ventrally. The papillae are conical, uniserial in the lower labium and in the lateral side of upper labium. TAL/TL is 71%.

Variation is shown in tables 6 and 7. Since both of the tadpoles are already in advanced Gosner stage, a full description of the mouth part could not be accomplished.