Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana nigrita LeConte, 1825, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, 1: 282. Type(s): Not designated; likely originally deposited in ANSP, although presumably now lost. Type locality: None given; designated as "Liberty County, Georgia", USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 74. Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 509, report a specimen donated by LeConte to the MNHNP (type?) from "Georgia", USA.

Acris nigrita — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 509.

Cystignathus nigritus — Holbrook, 1842, N. Am. Herpetol., Ed. 2, 4: 107.

Pseudacris nigrita — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31. Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 31.

Chorophilus nigritus — Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 59.

Chorophilus verrucosus Cope, 1877, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 17: 87. Holotype: ANSP 10773, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 353. Type locality: "Volusia, [on the east side of the St. John's River, perhaps 5 miles southeast of Lake George, Volusia County,] Florida", USA. Synonymy by Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 338.

Hyla verrucosa — Brocchi, 1881, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 1): 43. ; by implication Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5. Secondary homonym of Hyla verrucosa Daudin in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 "An. X", Hist. Nat. Rept., 2: 186.

Chorophilus nigritus verrucosus — Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 338. Provisional suggestion.

Pseudacris verrucosus — Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 1.

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

Pseudacris nigrita nigrita — Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 31. Schwartz, 1957, Am. Mus. Novit., 1838: 11.

Pseudacris nigrita verrucosa — Brady and Harper, 1935, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 48: 108.

Pseudacris nigrita verrucosa — Schwartz, 1957, Am. Mus. Novit., 1838: 11.

Hyla (Pseudacris) nigrita floridensis Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 88. Replacement name for Chorophilus verrucosus in Hyla ( Dubois, 1982, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 16: 9-65).

English Names

Black Tree Frog (Pseudacris nigrita: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 23).

Black Chorus Frog (Pseudacris nigrita: Wright, 1932, Life Hist. Frogs Okefinokee Swamp, 2: 13).

Chorus Frog (Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 158).

Southern Chorus Frog (Pseudacris nigrita: 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; 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: 20).

Swamp Tree Frog (Pseudacris nigrita: Dickerson, 1906, The Frog Book: 157).

Swamp Chorus Frog (Pseudacris nigrita nigrita: Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x).

Black Winter-Frog (Pseudacris nigrita nigrita: Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 55).

Swamp Tree Frog (Pseudacris nigrita nigrita: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 74).

Southern Chorus Frog (Pseudacris nigrita nigrita: 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: 330; 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).

Striped Southern Chorus Frog (Pseudacris nigrita nigrita: Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 12).

Florida Winter-Frog (Pseudacris nigrita verrucosus: Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 56).

Florida Chorus Frog (Pseudacris nigrita verrucosus: 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; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 330; 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).

Distribution

Atlantic Coastal Plain from North Carolina to southern Mississippi, USA.

Comment

In the Pseudacris nigrita group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 106. Two subspecies recognized; for discussion see Smith and Smith, 1952, Am. Midl. Nat., 48: 165-180, and Schwartz, 1957, Am. Mus. Novit., 1838: 1-12. Gates, 1988, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 416: 1-3, provided an account. Dubois, 1982, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 16: 9-65, placed Pseudacris as a subgenus of Hyla, and thereby made Hyla verrucosus Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 "An. X", Hist. Nat. Rept., 2: 186 (a nomen dubium, possibly senior to Hyla versicolor), a subjective senior homonym of Chorophilus verrucosa Cope, 1877, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 17: 89 (= Pseudacris nigrita verrucosa); Dubois provided the replacement name Hyla (Pseudacris) nigrita floridana. Moriarty and Cannatella, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 30: 409-420, rejected the recognition of subspecies.

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