Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes maculatus Agassiz, 1850, Lake Superior: 378. Syntypes: MCZ 38 (2 specimens), according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 281. Type locality: "Region of Lake Superior"; given as "North shore of Lake Superior", Canada by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 172; restricted to "vicinity of Sault Sainte Marie", Michigan, USA, and Ontario, Canada, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 75. Cook, 1964, Canad. Field Nat., 78: 191, discussed the type locality and restricted it to "vicinity of Fort William, Ontario", Canada.

Chorophilus septentrionalis Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 335-36. Holotype: BMNH 50.4.22.8, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 172. Type locality: "Great Bear Lake", Northwest Territory, Canada. Synonymy by Smith, 1956, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 69: 171.

Chorophilus nigritus septentrionalis — Dickerson, 1906, The Frog Book: 157.

Pseudacris septentrionalis — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 17.

Hyla septentrionalis — Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5. By implication.

Hyla canadensis Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5. Substitute name for Chorophilus septentrionalis Boulenger, preoccupied in Hyla by Hyla septentrionalis.

Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis — Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: 250. Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 32.

Pseudacris nigrita maculata — Smith, 1956, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 69: 171.

Pseudacris triseriata maculata — Schwartz, 1957, Am. Mus. Novit., 1838: 11.

Hyla (Pseudacris) triseriata maculata — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 86.

Pseudacris maculata — Platz, 1989, Copeia, 1989: 704-712.

English Names

Boreal Chorus Frog (Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 67; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 329; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63; 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: 12; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 10; 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).

Western Marsh Frog (as Pseudacris triseriata sensu lato: Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 118).

Boreal Chorus Frog (Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis [no longer recognized]: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 75; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176).

Distribution

Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and Wisconsin south through Montana, to central Arizona, northern New extreme northern Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, and western Indiana; disjunct population in southern Ontario and southern Quebec (Canada) and into adjacent New York and Vermont.

Comment

In the Pseudacris nigrita group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 106. Elevated from subspecies status under Pseudacris triseriata by Platz, 1989, Copeia, 1989: 704-712, on the basis of widespread sympatry and differences in call structure (see Platz and Forester, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 1062-1066). See nomenclatural discussion by Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 86-87. Lemmon, Lemmon, Collins, Lee-Yaw, and Cannatella, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 1068-1082, redelimited the species.

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