Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana septentrionalis Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 61. Type(s): Not stated; presumably USNM, ANSP, or Philadelphia Mus. Type locality: "Northern Minnesota"; restricted to "Lake Itasca", Clearwater County, Minnesota, USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 80.

Rana sinuata Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 61. Syntypes: Not stated; USNM 3420 (5 specimens) according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 76. Type locality: "Sackett's Harbor, [Jefferson County,] N[ew]. Y[ork].", USA. Synonymy by Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 32; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 37.

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

Rana (Aquarana) septentrionalis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331.

Rana (Novirana, Aquarana) septentrionalis — 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 septentrionalis — 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 (Aquarana) septentrionalis — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.

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

English Names

Rocky Mountain Frog (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 25).

Northern Frog (Dickerson, 1906, The Frog Book: 224).

Mink Frog (Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: xi; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 80; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 177; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 342; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 13; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 13; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 15; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 8; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 8; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 18).

Distribution

Southwestern Newfoundland west to southeastern Manitoba (Canada), south to northern New York on the east and Wisconsin and northern Minnesota on the west (USA).

Comment

In the Rana catesbeiana group of XXX. In the equivalent Rana clamitans group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41, and in the equivalent subgenus Aquarana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331. Reviewed by Hedeen, 1977, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 202: 1-2.

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