Figure 7. Oral disc and buccopharyngeal morphology of Mantidactylus zolitschka (ZSM 1768/2007). A, detail of the upper lip, showing the M-shaped, marginally keratinized upper jaw sheath. B, detail of the anterior region of the buccal floor showing the keratinized and serrated lower jaw sheath, and infra-labial and lingual papillae. C, buccal floor; note the longitudinal crests with ruffled ridges not meeting medially. D, buccal roof; note the large, ornamented narial vacuities and the longitudinal crests with tightly aligned buccal roof arena papillae. Scale bars: 200 µm.

Published as part of dos Santos Dias, Pedro Henrique, Vera Candioti, Florencia, Wassersug, Richard, Lukas, Paul, Targino, Mariane, Glos, Julian, Wheeler, Ward C, Hertwig, Stefan, Crottini, Angelica & Haas, Alexander, 2024, Stranger things: on the novel buccopharyngeal anatomy and functional morphology of 'sand-eating' Malagasy tadpoles (Anura: Mantellidae: Mantidactylus), pp. 1-13 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202 (2) on page 7, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae127, http://zenodo.org/record/14343371