brown mantella

{{short description|Species of frog}}

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| image = Mantella betsileo02.jpg

| image2 = Brown Mantella (Mantella betsileo) underside (9575069783).jpg

| image2_caption = Individuals showing the dull upperside (above) and the conspicuously marked underparts (below)

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| taxon = Mantella betsileo

| authority = (Grandidier, 1872)

| synonyms =

|status_ref={{cite iucn |author=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |date=2017 |title=Mantella betsileo |volume=2017 |page=e.T57440A84166187 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T57440A84166187.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

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The brown mantella (Mantella betsileo) is a species of frog in the family Mantellidae.

It is endemic to Madagascar.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and canals and ditches.

It is threatened by habitat loss.