Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Helocaetes clarkii Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 60. Syntypes: Not stated; USNM 3313, 3315, 3317, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 108; Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 50, listed only USNM 3133 as a syntype. Type locality: "Galveston and Indianola, Texas", USA; restricted to "Galveston", Galveston County, Texas, USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 74.

Heloecetes clarkii — Baird, 1859, Rep. U.S-Mex. Bound. Surv., 2(Pt. 2-Rept.): 28. Incorrect subsequent spelling of generic name.

Chorophilus triseriatus clarkii — Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 30.

Pseudacris triseriata clarkii — Burt, 1932, Am. Midl. Nat., 13: 80.

Pseudacris nigrita clarkii — Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 31.

Pseudacris clarkii — Smith, 1934, Am. Midl. Nat., 15: 462.

Hyla (Pseudacris) clarkii — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 85.

English Names

Clark's Tree Frog (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 23).

Clarke's Striped Tree Frog (Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x).

Spotted Chorus Frog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 74; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 331; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 12; Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 26; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 12; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 11; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 9; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 21; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 7; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 19).

Distribution

Central USA from central Kansas to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas; lower Rio Grande Valley (Texas, USA, and Tamaulipas, Mexico).

Comment

In the Pseudacris nigrita group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 106. Reviewed by Pierce and Whitehurst, 1990, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 458: 1-3. See also account by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 642-645. Lemmon, Lemmon, Collins, Lee-Yaw, and Cannatella, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 1068-1082, suggested this species to be most closely related to Pseudacris maculata. Record of Painter and Burkett, 1991, Herpetol. Rev., 22: 64, in northeastern New Mexico, based on misidentifications according to Stuart, 1992, Unpublished Rep. NM Dept. Game and Fish.

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