Mantella crocea 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 : 30

Mantella crocea Pintak & Böhme M. milotympanum Staniszewski (F1 hybrid)

The description is based on a tadpole in Gosner stage 36 catalogued as ZSM 1414/2004 (figure 5). Tadpoles from this series are hybrids obtained through captive breeding, from parental specimens collected in 1996–1998 without precise locality (see Glaw et al. 2000). The examined specimen had the following measurements: BL 7.2 mm, BH 3.1 mm, BW 5.1 mm, TMH 2.0 mm, TMW 2.6 mm, MTH 3.2 mm, TMHM 1.8 mm, ED 1.0 mm, IOD 2.6 mm, IND 1.7 mm, ODW 2.1 mm, TAL 15.4 mm, TL 22.2 mm, TN 76, PN 54. The mouth opens ventrally. The papillae are rounded, biserial in the lower labium. The jaw sheath is middle sized, partially pigmented and finely serrated. The labial tooth row formula is 5(2–5)/3(1). TAL/TL is 69%. Other tadpoles from the series examined are catalogued as ZSM 1400–1405 /2004 and 1408–1415 /2004 (altogether 11 tadpoles). Variation is shown in tables 3–7. In some individuals LTRF is 5(2–5)/3(1–2).