Hyla ranaeformis Laurenti, 1768
Hyla ranaeformis Laurenti, 1768, Spec. Med. Exhib. Synops. Rept.: 33. Holotype: By indication including specimens figured by Seba, 1734, Locuplet. Rer. Nat. Thesaur. Descript. Icon. Exp. Univ. Phys. Hist., 2: pl. 13, fig. 2 (var. a), and pl. 70, fig. 4 (var. b). Type locality: "prior in Lemno" (= mainly in Limnos, Greece) and [var. b] "Surinami". Considered by Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 205, to be assignable to some member of Pelophylax, and who formed the combination Rana (Pelophylax) ranaeformis. Schinz, 1822, Thierr. Naturgesch., 2: 167, only mentioned the frog figured in pl. 13, fig. 2 of Seba, 1734, Locuplet. Rer. Nat. Thesaur. Descript. Icon. Exp. Univ. Phys. Hist., 1, thereby implying a lectotype designation of the Limnos specimen.* Calamita ranaeformis— Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 170. (DRF finds the association of this nominal taxon with Pelophylax to be questionable, because to assign the frog illustrated by Seba in vol. 2, pl. 13, fig. 2, to Pelophylax requires a number of assumptions regarding the long-lost frog in question; the frog as illustrated lacks webbing between the toes, has expanded toe tips and, five toes on the forefeet.) Nevertheless, even if the assignment to Pelophylax is accepted, the name must be treated as a nomen oblitum.
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