| Boophis baetkei | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Mantellidae |
| Genus: | Boophis |
| Species: | B. baetkei |
| Binomial name | |
| Boophis baetkei Köhler, Glaw & Vences, 2008 | |
Boophis baetkei is a species of frog in the family Mantellidae. It is endemic to northern Madagascar and only known from its type locality on the eastern edge of the Fôret d'Ambre Special Reserve in the Antsiranana Province. It is an arboreal species that was found in a heavily disturbed transitional forest (characterized also as relatively dry rainforest). It is threatened by severe habitat loss occurring in the area of its type locality.
References
- ^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2015). "Boophis baetkei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T164889A1076622. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T164889A1076622.en.
- Köhler, J., Glaw, F., & Vences, M. "Two additional treefrogs of the Boophis ulftunni species group (Anura: Mantellidae) discovered in rainforests of northern and south-eastern Madagascar." Zootaxa 1814 (2008): 37-48.
- Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Boophis baetkei Köhler, Glaw, and Vences, 2008". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
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| Boophis baetkei | |
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