Pelophylax cretensis (Beerli, Hotz, Tunner, Heppich, and Uzzell, 1994)
Rana cretensis Beerli, Hotz, Tunner, Heppich, and Uzzell, 1994, Not. Nat., Philadelphia, 470: 2. Holotype: MHNG 2543.90, by original designation. Type locality: "Kastelli . . ., western Crete, Greece (35° 30′ N/23° 43′ E), 5 m".
Rana (Pelophylax) cretensis — Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 180.
Hylarana cretensis — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237. by implication.
Pelophylax cretensis — 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
Greek Marsh Frog (Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 96).
Cretan Frog (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 503).
Distribution
Crete, Greece, below 100 m elevation.
Comment
In the "western Palearctic water frog group" according to the original publication. Plötner and Ohst, 2001, Mitt. Mus. Naturkd. Berlin, Zool., 77: 5-21, discussed relationships of this frog. Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 96-97, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Kyriakopoulou-Sklavounou, Xeros, Charilaou, and Tsiora, 2003, Ann. Soc. R. Zool. Belg., 133: 191-193, on the basis of allele frequencis suggested that Pelophylax epeiroticus is most closely related to Pelophylax cretensis. Casola, Marracci, Bucci, Ragghianti, Mancino, Hotz, Uzzell, and Guex, 2004, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 42: 234-244, provided a molecular tree of western Palearctic water frogs (all as Rana) in the topology Pelophylax saharicus (Pelophylax cretensis (Pelophylax perezi (Pelophylax shqipericus (Pelophylax epeiroticus ("Pelophylax lessonae" + Pelophylax ridibundus))))). See brief account for Greece by Valakos, Pafilis, Sotiropoulos, Lymberakis, Maragou, and Foufopoulos, 2008, Amph. Rept. Greece: 106-107. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana cretensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 503.
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