Lithobates spectabilis (Hillis and Frost, 1985)
Rana spectabilis Hillis and Frost, 1985, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 117: 5. Holotype: KU 195186, by original designation. Type locality: "La Estanzuela, Hidalgo, México, elevation 2900 m".
Rana (Rana) spectabilis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.
Rana (Pantherana) spectabilis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331.
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) spectabilis — 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 spectabilis — 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) spectabilis — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 830. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
Rana (Scurrilirana) spectabilis — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336. by implication.
English Names
Showy Leopard Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 26; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 17).
Distribution
Elevations of 1200-3200 m from eastern Michoacán east through the eastern part of the state of México and Morelos, north through Tlaxcala to eastern Hidalgo, and south through central Puebla and a small portion of western Veracruz to the highlands of northwestern Oaxaca, 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 section Pelophylax, subgenus Pantherana, Rana berlandieri group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331. López-Mejía and Goyenechea, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 300, provided a range extension in Hidalgo, Mexico.
External Links
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
- For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
- for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML
