Pseudacris ornata (Holbrook, 1836)
Rana ornata Holbrook, 1836, N. Am. Herpetol., 1: 97. Type(s): Frog figured in pl 16; not now known to exist. Type locality: ". . . only in South Carolina . . . about four miles from Charleston, between the Cooper and Ashley rivers . . .", Charleston County, South Carolina, USA. Senior secondary homonym of Pyxicephalus ornatus when that taxon is in Rana.
Cystignathus ornatus — Holbrook, 1842, N. Am. Herpetol., Ed. 2, 4: 103.
Litoria occidentalis Baird and Girard, 1853, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 301. Type(s): Not stated although presumably originally in USNM or ANSP. Type locality: "San Francisco", California, USA, in error according to Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 32; restricted to Liberty County, Georgia, USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 76. Synonymy by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 76.
Chorophilus ornatus — LeConte, 1855, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 428.
Cystignathus ornatus — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 29.
Chorophilus copii Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 334. Holotype: BMNH 58.2.23.55, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 170. Type locality: "Georgia", USA. Synonymy with Litoria occidentalis by Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 335. Synonymy by Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 351.
Chorophilus occidentalis — Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 335.
Hyla copii — Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 266. Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5.
Pseudacris occidentalis — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 30.
Pseudacris ornata — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 31.
Hyla ornata — Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5. By implication.
Pseudacris copii — Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 1.
Hyla occidentalis — Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5. By implication.
Hyla weberi Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5. Replacement name for Chorophilus copii Boulenger, 1882.
Hyla (Pseudacris) ornata — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 85.
English Names
Ornate Land Frog (Cystignathus ornatus: Wood, 1863, Illust. Nat. Hist., 3: 161).
Smooth Chorus Frog (Chorophilus occidentalis [no longer recognized]: Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 158). Wood, 1863, Illust. Nat. Hist., 3: 151;
Western Chorus Frog (Chorophilus occidentalis [no longer recognized]: Strecker, 1915, Baylor Bull., 18: 48); Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x [as Pseudacris occidentalis]).
Ornate Tree Frog (Pseudacris ornata: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24).
Ornate Winter-Frog (Pseudacris ornata: Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 57).
Ornate Chorus Frog (Pseudacris ornata: Strecker, 1915, Baylor Bull., 18: 48; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 76; 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: 332; 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: 13; 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).
Ornate Winter Frog (Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10).
Distribution
Atlantic Coastal Plain from eastern North Carolina to central Florida and southeastern Louisiana, USA.
Comment
In the Pseudacris nigrita group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 106. For discussion see Harper, 1937, Am. Midl. Nat., 18: 260-272. Reviewed by Glorioso, 2010, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 866: 1-8.
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