Pseudacris fouquettei Lemmon, Lemmon, Collins, and Cannatella, 2008
Pseudacris fouquettei Lemmon, Lemmon, Collins, and Cannatella, 2008, Zootaxa, 1675: 4. Holotype: TNHC 62265, by original designation. Type locality: "United States: Louisiana: East Baton Rouge Parish: (NW of Baywood on Lee Price Road, 1.4 mi W of jct. with SR 37; N30.7147 W90.8919)".
English Names
Cajun Chorus Frog (original publication; 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
Eastern Oklahoma (possibly into adjacent southeastern Kansas) and East Texas, east through Arkansas to extreme southeastern Missouri, western Mississippi, and all of Louisiana, USA.
Comment
The sister species of Pseudacris nigrita and previously confused with Pseudacris feriarum according to the original publication. Wiens, Kuczynski, Hua, and Moen, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55 873, noted studies in which specimens of this species (prior to its naming) had been considered to be Pseudacris feriarum.
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