Lithobates dunni (Zweifel, 1957)
Rana dunni Zweifel, 1957, Copeia, 1957: 78. Holotype: AMNH 58409, by original designation. Type locality: "at the embarcadero, Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico".
Rana (Rana) dunni — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41-42. by implication.
Rana (Pantherana) dunni — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332.
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Stertirana, Lacusirana) dunni — 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 dunni — 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) dunni — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
Rana (Lacusirana) dunni — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336. by implication.
English Names
Patzcuaro Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 27; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 16).
Distribution
Lake Pátzcuaro, Lake Cuitzeo, and Río de Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.
Comment
In the Rana montezumae subgroup of the Rana pipiens complex as defined by Hillis, Frost, and Wright, 1983, Syst. Zool., 32: 132-143. In the Rana (Pantherana) montezumae group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana dunni) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 503.
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