Lithobates miadis (Barbour and Loveridge, 1929)
Rana miadis Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 143. Holotype: MCZ 14847, by original designation. Type locality: "Little Corn Island, forty miles off the Nicaraguan coast", Nicaragua.
Rana (Rana) miadis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41-42. by implication.
Rana (Pantherana) miadis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331.
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) miadis — Hillis and Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 312. 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 miadis — 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) miadis — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
Rana (Scurrilirana) miadis — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336. by implication.
English Names
Little Corn Island Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).
Distribution
Little Corn Island off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.
Comment
In the Rana berlandieri subgroup of the Rana pipiens group as defined by Hillis, Frost, and Wright, 1983, Syst. Zool., 32: 132-143. In the equivalent Rana (Pantherana) berlandieri group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331. Removed from the synonymy of Rana pipiens (sensu lato) by Hillis, Frost, and Wright, 1983, Syst. Zool., 32: 132-143, where it had been placed by Zweifel, 1967, Herpetologica, 23: 54-56. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana miadis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 507.
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