Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana macroglossa Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 177. Syntypes: MNHNP 6321, 6321A, 6321B; MNHNP 6321 designated lectotype by Smith, Lynch, and Reese, 1966, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 23: 169-173. Type locality: "plateau de Guatemala".

Rana (Rana) macroglossa — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41. by implication.

Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) macroglossa — 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 macroglossa — 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) macroglossa — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.

Rana (Scurrilirana) macroglossa — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336. by implication.

English Names

Guatemala Plateau Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Distribution

Highlands of western and central Guatemala, 1500-2500 m elevation

Comment

The name Rana macroglossa apparently applies to a member of the Rana pipiens group through the lectotype designation according to D.M. Hillis in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 502. Considered synonymous with Rana maculata by Holman and Birkenholz, 1963, Herpetologica, 19: 144-146. Not assigned to subgenus by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 305-352. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana macroglossa) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 506.

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