Lithobates vibicarius (Cope, 1894)
Levirana vibicaria Cope, 1894, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 46: 197. Syntypes: Not stated; but AMNH 5463 and 7445 catalogued as syntypes; AMNH 5463 designated lectotype by Zweifel, 1964, Copeia, 1964: 300. Type locality: "Rancho Redondo on the divide of the Irazu Range" and "Isla Nueva near the head of the Rio Sucio, on the Atlantic side", Costa Rica; restricted by lectotype designation to "Rancho Redondo, on the divide of the Irazú range", Cantón de Goicoechea, Provincia de San José, Costa Rica. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 103, commented on the type locality.
Rana godmani Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 204. Syntypes: 3 specimens including BMNH 1947.2.28.18, according to XXX. Type locality: "Costa Rica, Rio Sucio [1900-2000 m, Cantón de Cartago, Provincia Cartago]". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 109, commented on the type locality. Synonymy suggested as likely by Boulenger, 1919, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 3: 414-415; made by Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 138-146.
Rana vibicaria — Dunn, 1922, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 35: 221.
Rana (Rana) vibicaria — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41-42. by implication.
Rana (Trypheropsis) vibicaria — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 330.
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Ranula, Levirana, Trypheropsis) vibicaria — 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 vibicarius — 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) vibicarius — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
Rana (Trypheropsis) vibicaria — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336. by implication.
English Names
Rancho Redondo Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110).
Distribution
Cloud forests in the Cordillera de Tilarán, Cordillera Central, and Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica and western Panama, 1500-2700 m elevation.
Comment
Sole member of the Rana (Trypheropsis) vibicaria group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 330. In the Rana palmipes group of Hillis and de Sá, 1988, Herpetol. Monogr., 2: 1-26. See Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 900-903, and Hillis and de Sá, 1988, Herpetol. Monogr., 2: 1-26, for synonymy and discussion. See accounts by Zweifel, 1964, Copeia, 1964: 300-308; Villa, 1988, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 437: 1-2; and Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 403-404. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana tlaloci) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 514.
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