Blue-legged mantella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Mantellidae |
Genus: | Mantella |
Species: | M. expectata
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Binomial name | |
Mantella expectata Busse & Böhme, 1992
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The blue-legged mantella (Mantella expectata) is a small species of frog in the family Mantellidae. It is endemic to the Isalo National Park and areas south of it in Madagascar, a range it shares with the rainbow frog (Scaphiophryne gottlebei).[2] Both are locally common, but endangered due to habitat loss and over-collected for the pet trade.[3]