Lithobates forreri (Boulenger, 1883)
Rana forreri Boulenger, 1883, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 11: 343. Holotype: BMNH 1882.12.5.7 according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 207; renumbered 1947.2.3.64 according to McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 482. Type locality: "Presidio", Sinaloa, Mexico.
Rana halecina var. forreri — Boulenger, 1919, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 3: 413.
Rana berlandieri forreri — Sanders and Smith, 1971, J. Herpetol., 5: 31, 37.
Rana forreri — Hillis, 1981, Copeia, 1981: 313. Frost, 1982, Syst. Zool., 31: 66.
Rana (Rana) forreri — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41-42. by implication.
Rana (Pantherana) forreri — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331.
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) forreri — 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 forreri — 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) forreri — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
Rana (Scurrilirana) forreri — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336. by implication.
English Names
Forrer's Grass Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 27; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).
Forrer's Leopard Frog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 16).
Distribution
Southern Sonora south along the Pacific coastal plain to northwestern Costa Rica; an apparently isolated population in the Balsas valley of southern Mexico.
Comment
Subgenus Rana, Rana berlandieri subgroup of the Rana pipiens group as defined by Hillis, Frost, and Wright, 1983, Syst. Zool., 32: 132-143. In equivalent Rana (Pantherana) berlandieri group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331. Elevated from status as a subspecies of Rana berlandieri by J. Frost, 1982, Syst. Zool., 31: 57-67. See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 399-400, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 482-485, who noted a hybrid zone with "Rana berlandieri" (now Rana brownorum). Grismer, 2002, Amph. Rept. Baja California: 81-82, provided an account for the introduced Baja California, Mexico, population. Zaldívar-Riverón, León-Regagnon, and Nieto-Montes de Oca, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 30: 38-49, provided a molecular phylogenetic analysis of this species and near relatives, including several undescribed relatives: "Pagapayo", "Arcelia", and "Colima". Köhler, Vesely, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 66-68, provided an account (as Rana forreri, and for El Salvador) and a color photograph. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras.
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