Lithobates neovolcanicus (Hillis and Frost, 1985)
Rana neovolcanica Hillis and Frost, 1985, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 117: 3. Holotype: KU 200782, by original designation. Type locality: "3. 2 km NW Tapalpa, Jalisco, México, elevation 2088 m".
Rana (Rana) neovolcanica — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41-42. by implication.
Rana (Pantherana) neovolcanica — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331.
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) neovolcanica — 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 neovolcanicus — 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) neovolcanicus — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
Rana (Scurrilirana) neovolcanica — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336. by implication.
English Names
Transverse Volcanic 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
Pine-oak forest and mesquite-grassland at elevations of 1500-2500 m along the southern edge of the Mexican Plateau in the states of Guanajuato, Jalisco, Zacatecas, Michoacan, and México, Mexico.
Comment
In the Rana berlandieri subgroup of the Rana pipiens complex 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. Casas-Andreu, Cruz-Aviña, and Aguilar-Miguel, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 63-64, discussed the range. See comment under Lithobates tlaloci. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Rana neovolcanica) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 633. Ahumada-Carrillo, Vázquez-Huizar, Vázquez-Diaz, and García-Vázquez, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 397, provided a record for Zacatecas, Mexico, and discussed the range.
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