Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana montezumae Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 61. Syntypes: Not stated; USNM 3344 (the number which originally included all types in a single lot), 39383-96, and MCZ 2600 (formerly USNM 39397), according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 198; and Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 75; USNM 3344 designated lectotype by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 197. Type locality: "City of Mexico", Distrito Federal, Mexico.

Rana montezumae montezumae — Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 61. by implication.

Rana adrita Troschel In Müller, 1865, in Reisen Ver. Staaten Canada und Mexiko., 3: 616. Types: Not designated or known to exist. Type locality: "Mexiko". Restricted to "México (City)", Distrito Federal, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 329. Considered a nomen dubium by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 7. Synonymy by Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 153: 199; Boulenger, 1920, Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., 55: 431.

Rana montezumae concolor Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 20. Syntypes: Not stated; USNM 10247 (4 specimens) by museum records; USNM 81101 (formerly 10247) designated lectotype by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 198. Type locality: "Guanajuato", Guanajuato, Mexico. Status as subspecies rejected by Boulenger, 1920, Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., 55: 431.

Rana (Rana) montezumae — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41-42. by implication.

Rana (Pantherana) montezumae — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332.

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

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

English Names

Montezuma's Frog (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 25).

Montezuma Leopard Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 27; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 16).

Distribution

San Luis Potosí, Queretaro, Jalisco, and eastern Durango south to the southeastern edge of the Mexican Plateau in Tlaxcala, Puebla, Distrito Federal, and Veracruz, 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 equivalent Rana (Pantherana) montezumae group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332. McCranie and Wilson, 2001, Cour. Forschungsinst. Senckenb., 230: 14-15, discussed confusion between Rana chiricahuensis and Rana montezumae. Uribe-Peña, Ramírez-Bautista, and Casas-Andreu, 1999, Cuad. Inst. Biol., UNAM, 32: 34-36, provided an account. Duifhuis-Rivera and García-Vazquez, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 507-508, provided the record for Tlaxala and commented on the range. Korky and Webb, 1992, Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 28 53-64, described the larval morphology.

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