Lithobates juliani (Hillis and de Sá, 1988)
Rana juliani Hillis and de Sá, 1988, Herpetol. Monogr., 2: 7. Holotype: UTA 9068, by original designation. Type locality: "SW end of Little Quartz Ridge, Maya Mountains, Toledo District, Belize, 16°24′N, 89°6′W, elevation 915 m".
Rana (Sierrana) juliani — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 330.
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Ranula, Lithobates) juliani — 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 juliani — 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) juliani — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
Rana (Lithobates) juliani — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336. by implication.
English Names
Maya Mountains Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).
Julian's Frog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 95).
Maya Mountain Frog (Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 128).
Distribution
Streams of Little Quartz Ridge and Montain Pine Ridge of the Maya Mountains, Belize, 100-915 m elevation.
Comment
In the Rana (Sierrana) maculata group, of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 330. A member of the Rana palmipes group of Hillis and de Sá, 1988, Herpetol. Monogr., 2: 1-26. See accounts by Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 125-126; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 95-96, and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 128-129. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Rana juliani) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 633.
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