Lithobates palmipes (Spix, 1824)
Rana palmipes Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 5. Syntypes: Not designated but including animal figured on pl. 5, fig. 2 in the original publication; ZSM (4 specimens), including ZSM 963/0 (2 specimens), now lost, according to Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 359, who provided discussion. See also comments by Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 186. Type locality: "in aquis stagnantibus fluminis Amazonum" = stagnant waters of the Amazon River, Brazil.
Rana juninensis Tschudi, 1845, Arch. Naturgesch., 11: 167. Types: Not designated, although presumably originally in MHNN. Type locality: "Republica Peruana"; given as "Laguna von Junin, 13000 Füss u. M.", Peru, by Tschudi, 1846 "1845", Untersuch. Fauna Peruana, Herpetol.: 63. Type locality is suspect if identification and synonymy is correct. Possible confusion with Telmatobius?—DRF. Synonymy by Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 622; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 48; Boulenger, 1919, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 3: 415.
Lithobates palmipes — Jan, 1857, Cenni Mus. Civ. Milano: 53.
Ranula gollmeri Peters, 1859, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1859: 402. Syntypes: ZMB 3193 (2 specimens) according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 50. Type locality: "Carácas", Venezuela. Synonymy by Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 205; Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 622; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 48.
Rana affinis Peters, 1859, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1859: 403. Syntypes: ZMB 3291 and 7186 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 50. Type locality: "Carácas", Venezuela. Synonymy by Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 205; Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 622; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 48.
Rana clamata var. guianensis Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 412. Holotype: ZMB 3116 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 50. Type locality: "wirklich aus Guiana" [= Guyana]. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1891, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 8: 453-457.
Ranula affinis — Cope, 1866, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 18: 130.
Pohlia palmipes — Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 15.
Ranula palmipes — Cope, 1871, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 23: 222.
Ranula brevipalmata Cope, 1874, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 26: 131. Holotype: ANSP 11398, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 349 Type locality: "Nauta", Loreto, Peru. Secondary homonym of Rana brevipalmata Peters, 1871. Secondary homonym of Rana brevipalmata Peters, 1871. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1919, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 3: 415.
Ranula nigrilatus Cope, 1874, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 26: 131. Types: Presumably ANSP, not located. Type locality: "Nauta", Departamento Loreto, Peru. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1919, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 3: 415.
Hylarana brevipalmata — Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 175.
Rana (Ranula) affinis — Sumichrast, 1880, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 5: 189.
Rana nigrilatus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 49.
Rana copii Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 49. Replacement name for Ranula brevipalmata Cope, 1874.
Rana brevipalmata — Fowler, 1913, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 65: 166.
Ranula nigrilatus — Boulenger, 1920, Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., 55: 473.
Rana palmipes forma rionapensis Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 3. Holotype: NHRM by original indication. Type locality: "Rio Napo, 400 m", eastern Ecuador.
Rana (Rana) palmipes — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.
Rana (Lithobates) palmipes — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 330.
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Ranula, Lithobates) palmipes — 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 palmipes — 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) palmipes — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
Rana (Lithobates) palmipes — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336. by implication.
English Names
Amazon River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).
Spring Chicken (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 127).
Distribution
Northern and Amazonian South America east of the Andes, including Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, the Guianas, and Brazil to northern Mato Grosso; isolated populations in in Brazil in Rio Grando do Nortes south to Sergipe; Bahia, western Goiás, and southern Piauí, Brazil..
Comment
In the subgenus Lithobates of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329-330. The Rana palmipes group of Hillis and de Sá, 1988, Herpetol. Monogr., 2: 1-26, who provided an account. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 286-287, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 84, commented on range in Venezuela. Acosta-Galvis, 1999, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 214-225, discussed Colombian populations. Kenny, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 29: 61- 63, and Murphy, 1997, Amph. Rept. Trinidad Tobago: 97-98, provided brief accounts for Trinidad. Canedo and Bilate, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 334, provided records for Alagoas, Bahia, Mato Grosso, and Pará, Brazil, and briefly discussed the range of the species. See comment under Lithobates vaillanti. Hillis and Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 308, noted that the population from Venezuela likely represents a distinct species for which the name Ranula gollmeri Peters is available. Oliveira, Maciel, and Vaz-Silva, 2010, Herpetol. Notes, 3: 277-278, provided a record for an apparently isolated record in western Goiás, Brazil. Ferreira and Faria, 2011, Herpetol. Notes, 4: 139-140, provided a record for Sergipe, Brazil. Ramalho, Viana, Benevides, Silva, and Alves-Silva, 2011, Herpetol. Notes, 4: 249-251, provided a record for Piauí, Brazil, and provided a range map for the species. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 296-298.
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