''Aglyptodactylus madagascariensis'' is a species of

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...

in the family

Mantellidae The Mantellidae are an amphibian family (biology), family of the order (biology), order Frog, Anura (frogs and toads), and are Endemism, endemic to the Indian Ocean islands of Madagascar and Mayotte. At first glance, the diminutive, brightly-col ...

known commonly as the Madagascar jumping frog. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

Madagascar Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's List of islands by area, f ...

, where it has a wide distribution across the eastern side of the island. ''A. madagascariensis'' is a complex of various species which occur in different elevational ranges and different areas of Eastern Madagascar. This frog is common and forms large groups during its mating season, when it breeds "explosively". It lives in the leaf litter of tropical forest habitat, and it can utilize disturbed habitat and

plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tob ...

s.Nussbaum, R., Raxworthy, C.J. & Cadle, J. 2008
''Aglyptodactylus madagascariensis''.
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References

Aglyptodactylus Endemic frogs of Madagascar Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Amphibians described in 1853 Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril {{Mantellidae-stub