Pelophylax bergeri (Günther, 1986)
Rana hispanica Fitzinger, 1826, Neue Class. Rept.: 64. Type(s): Not designated, although presumably originally in NHMW. Type locality: "Spanische R. Ex. Euopa, Hispania". Nomen nudum.
Rana hispanica Bonaparte, 1839, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 24): pl. 81 (description by indication). Holotype: Specimen figured in pl. 81, fig. 5 of the original publication according to Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 157. Type locality: Not stated; restricted to Sicily, Italy, by Mertens and Wermuth, 1960, Amph. Rept. Europas: 55, this restriction supported by discussion in Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 158. Based on a hybridogen of Pelophylax bergeri x Pelophylax ridibundus according to XXX. Crochet and Dubois, 2004, In Gasc et al. (eds)., Atlas Amph. Rept. Europe, Ed. 2: 499, that because the type specimen is lost that the assignment of this name could be either to the hybridogenetic (hybrid) population or to what is currently called Pelophylax bergeri.
Rana fluviatilis Bonaparte, 1840, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 2: 443. Types: Not stated; Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 159, suggested designating a neotype of this species that is a specimen of Rana hispanica, which Bonaparte thought might actually apply to this form. Type locality: Not designated; given as Rivers of Lombardia, Italy, by XXX. Synonymy by Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 158. Based on a hybridogen of Rana bergeri x Rana ridibunda according to Crochet and Dubois, 2004, In Gasc et al. (eds)., Atlas Amph. Rept. Europe, Ed. 2: 499.
Pelophylax hispanicus — Fitzinger, 1861 "1860", Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 42: 414.
Rana esculenta var. hispanica — Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 16. Boettger, 1883, Rept. Amph. Marocco: 46. [Based on misidentified specimens from Morocco]; Boscá, 1880, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 5: 260.
Rana lessonae bergeri Günther In Engelmann, Fritzsche, Günther, and Obst, 1986, Lurche Kriechtiere Eur.: 180. Type(s): Not stated; male figured in original description designated lectotype by Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 177. Type locality: Not stated; designated as "Region of Roma (41° 54′ N, 12° 29′ E, Lazio, Italy" by Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 177.
Rana (Pelophylax) bergeri — Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 177.
Rana (Pelophylax) kl. hispanica — Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 157.
Rana lessonae bergeri — Crochet and Dubois, 2004, In Gasc et al. (eds)., Atlas Amph. Rept. Europe, Ed. 2: 499.
Hylarana bergeri — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237. by implication.
Pelophylax bergeri — 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.
English Names
Italian Pool Frog (Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 94).
Italian hybrid Frog (Rana kl. hispanica [hybridogen of Rana bergeri x Rana ridibunda]: XXX).
Distribution
Peninsular Italy; Corsica; Sicily.
Comment
Formerly confused with "Rana esculenta" and Pelophylax lessonae. Uzzell and Hotz, 1979, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 55: 13-27, and Uzzell, 1983, Herpetologica, 39: 225-234, noted that "Rana lessonae" from the Italian peninsula represented an undescribed species. Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 177, who also discussed that this name might represent a distinct species in Sicily and Calabria. The existence of this species was confirmed by Sinsch and Schneider, 1996, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 34: 63-73. See Paolucci, Borriello, Botte, Zerani, and Magni, 1988 "1987", Boll. Zool., Padua, 54: 341-346, for relevant data. See Plötner, 1998, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 36: 191-201, and Plötner and Ohst, 2001, Mitt. Mus. Naturkd. Berlin, Zool., 77: 5-21, for discussion of relationships. Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 94, provided a brief account, figure, and map. The hybridogen now called Pelophylax kl. hispanicus was noted by Uzzell and Hotz, 1979, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 55: 15, as a distinct hybridogenetic population. Hispanicus was removed from the synonymy of Pelophylax perezi by Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 157, where it had been placed by XXX. While noting that it may still be found to be a junior synonym of Rana lessonae, Dubois and Ohler attached the name Rana hispanica to the hybridogenetic population formerly known as the "southern hybrid" by Uzzell and Hotz, 1979, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 55: 15. Records for this species from Corsica are based on specimens of Rana bergeri (J. Speybroeck, personal commun.). Crochet and Dubois, 2004, In Gasc et al. (eds)., Atlas Amph. Rept. Europe, Ed. 2: 499, discussed the recent literature of this species and suggested the bergeri be treated as XXX. See discussion of this species and the hybridogenetic system Pelophylax kl. hispanicus in Italy by Capula, Sacchi, and Razzetti, 2007, in Lanza et al. (eds.), Fauna d'Italia, 42 (Amph.): 381-386.
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