Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana sevosa Goin and Netting, 1940, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 28: 137. Holotype: CM 16809, by original designation. Type locality: "Slidell, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana", USA.

Rana capito sevosa — Wright and Wright, 1942, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada, Ed. 2: 186. Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 79.

Rana areolata sevosa — Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10. Neill, 1957, Herpetologica, 13: 47-52.

Rana sevosa — Young and Crother, 2001, Copeia, 2001: 382-388.

Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Nenirana) sevosa — 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 sevosus — 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) sevosus — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.

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

English Names

St. Tammany Gopher Frog (Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10).

Dark Gopher Frog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 79),

Dusky Gopher Frog (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: 349; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106; 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: 14; 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

Now widely extirpated, but originally in southeastern Louisiana, through southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, the panhandle of Florida, possibly into western Georgia, USA; isolated record in central Tennessee.

Comment

Reviewed (as Rana areolata sevosa) by Altig and Lohoefener, 1983, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 324:1-4. Removed from the synonymy of Rana areolata by Young and Crother, 2001, Copeia, 2001: 382, where it had been placed by Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 3-12, and Neill, 1957, Herpetologica, 13: 47-52. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana sevosa) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 511. Richter, Crother, and Broughton, 2009, Copeia, 2009: 799-806, reported on the genetic consequences of population frgamentation and reduction in this species.

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