Lithobates blairi (Mecham, Littlejohn, Oldham, Brown, and Brown, 1973)
Rana blairi Mecham, Littlejohn, Oldham, Brown, and Brown, 1973, Occas. Pap. Mus. Texas Tech Univ., 18: 3. Holotype: UMMZ 131690, by original designation. Type locality: "1. 6 km W New Deal, Lubbock Co[unty]., Texas", USA.
Rana (Rana) blairi — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233. by implication.
Rana (Rana) blairi — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41. by implication.
Rana (Pantherana) blairi — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332.
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) blairi — Hillis and Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 305. See Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 317-330, Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 331-338, and Dubois, 2007, Cladistics, 23: 390-402, for relevant discussion of nomenclature. Invalid name formulation under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) as discussed by Dubois, 2007, Cladistics, 23: 395.
Lithobates blairi — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 369. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13; by implication.
Lithobates (Lithobates) blairi — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
Rana (Scurrilirana) blairi — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336. by implication.
English Names
Plains Leopard Frog (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 346; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106; 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: 14; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 237; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 7; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 8; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 17).
Distribution
Northwestern Indiana west across central and southern plains to southeastern Arkansas, southeastern South Dakota, eastern Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and central Texas to eastern and central New Mexico; isolated population in southeastern Arizona, USA.
Comment
In the subgenus Rana, Rana pipiens subgroup of the Rana pipiens complex as defined by Hillis, Frost, and Wright, 1983, Syst. Zool., 32: 132-143. In the equivalent Rana (Pantherana) pipiens group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332. Reviewed by Brown, 1992, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 536: 1-6. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 237-238, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Di Candia and Routman, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 45: 564-575, reported on hybridization and introgression with Lithobates pipiens. Engbrecht, Crawford, and Lannoo, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 446, provided a record for central Indiana and discussed the range. Korky, 1978, Copeia, 1978: 455-459, reported on larval difference from Lithobates pipiens in Nebraska.
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