Boophis tasymena Vences & Glaw 2002

M 21-23 mm, F 32 mm. Tibiotarsal articulation reaches at least the nostril and often beyond snout tip. Hand with some webbing, foot webbing 1(0), 2i(0.5), 2e(0), 3i(1.25), 3e(0.5), 4i/e(2), 5(0.5). Dorsal skin smooth. Dorsally green, sometimes with traces of yellow dorsolateral lines, and always with numerous, evenly spaced small red dots. Tips of fingers and toes greenish. Outer iris area turquoise, iris periphery blue (Glaw and Vences 2007). Similar species: B. erythrodactylus differs by having red colour on the tips of fingers and toes (Glaw and Vences 2007).Taken partly from Glaw and Vences (2007), with permission.

An’Ala, Andasibe, Mananara, Mantadia, Ranomafana (Vohiparara, Imaloka, Maharira forest) (Glaw and Vences 2007). It occurs at 300-900 m asl in pristine rainforest (Vences et al. 2008).

Males call at night from 1-3 m above the ground in the vegetation next to streams in rainforest. The call is a short, high-pitched note consisting of two, sometimes three, clicks (Glaw and Vences 2007). Breeding occurs in the streams (Vences et al. 2008)

A common, widely distributed species, but threatened by habitat loss due to increasing subsistence agriculture, logging, charcoal manufacture, invasion and spread of eucalyptus, increased grazing and expanding human settlement. Requires pristine forest. Occurs in several protected areas (Vences et al. 2008).

Boophis tasymena is a species of frogs in the family Mantellidae endemic to Madagascar.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.