Pelophylax kurtmuelleri (Gayda, 1940)
Rana ridibunda kurt-mülleri Gayda, 1940 "1939", Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 79: 267. Holotype: ZMB, according to the original publication. Type locality: "Arsen presso Petrelli" = Erzen river near Petrela, Albania.
Rana balcanica Schneider and Sinsch, 1992, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 30: 297-315. Type(s): Not designated; holotype subsequently noted (lectotype designation by implication) as ZFMK 52825 by Schneider, Sinsch, and Sofianidou, 1993, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 31: 47-63; Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 179, designated as lectotype 'the adult male which produced the mating call represented in oscillogram of fig. 2c of Schnieder and Sinsch (1992). " This second lectotype designation is apparently unnecessary and invalid. Type locality: "includes Greece except for Thrace . . . has also been found at Lake Scutari in Yugoslavia [on Montenegro-Albanian border]"; designated as "ca. 2 km west of Gefyra (near Thessaloniki, Macedonia) in a pond directly on the eastern bank of the Axios River", Greece, by Schneider, Sinsch, and Sofianidou, 1993, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 31: 60. Synonymy by Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 175. The argument by Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 179-180, that Rana balcanica Schneider and Sinsch, 1992, and Rana balcanica Schneider, Sinsch, and Sofianidou, 1993, represent different nominal taxa is here rejected.
Rana (Pelophylax) kurtmuelleri — Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 179.
Hylarana kurtmuelleri — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237. by implication.
Pelophylax kurtmuelleri — 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
Balkan Frog (Sofianidou, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 130).
Greek Marsh Frog (Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 96).
Distribution
Southern Greece north into Albania and Serbia; isolated record for Slovenia; introduced into Liguria. Piemonte, and Lombardia, Italy.
Comment
Related and most similar to Pelophylax ridibundus (as Rana) according to the original publication. In the Section Pelophylax, subgenus Pelophylax; by implication. Sinsch and Eblenkamp, 1994, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 32: 35-43, discussed relationships (of Rana balcanica) with Rana ridibunda and Rana levantina. A more extensive description of Rana balcanica appeared ( Schneider, Sinsch, and Sofianidou, 1993, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 31: 47-63) after the inadvertant earlier naming of this species. See Schneider and Haxhiu, 1994, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 121: 248-262, for discussion of Rana balcanica (and Rana epeirotica) in Albania. See Sofianidou, Schneider, and Sinsch, 1994, Alytes, 12: 93-108, for comparative electrophoretic study. See comment under Rana epeirotica. Sofianidou, 1996, Israel J. Zool., 42: 149-157, reported on an electrophoretic study of a hybrid zone between Pelophylax epeiroticus (as Rana) and Pelophylax kurtmuelleri (as Rana balcanica). Sofianidou, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 130-131, discussed (as Rana balcanica) range and relevant literature. Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 96, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Lever, 2003, Naturalized Rept. Amph. World: 202-203, reported the species as intoduced in Denmark (as Rana balcanica). Gavrilovic, Cvetkovic, Djukic, and Petkovski, 1999, in Legakis (ed.), Contr. Zoogeogr. Ecol. E. Mediterr. Region, 1: 205-210, reported on differences from Pelophylax ridibundus (as Rana balcanica). Lymberakis, Poulakakis, Manthalou, Tsigenopoulos, Magoulas, and Mylonas, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 115-125, questioned on the basis of molecular evidence the distinctiveness of Pelophylax kurtmuelleri from Pelophylax ridibundus. Crochet and Dubois, 2004, In Gasc et al. (eds)., Atlas Amph. Rept. Europe, Ed. 2: 499, discussed the ambiguity of data separating this taxon from Pelophylax ridibundus. Bressi, 2007, Atti Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Trieste, 53: 3-10, reported this species in Slovenia. See brief account for Greece by Valakos, Pafilis, Sotiropoulos, Lymberakis, Maragou, and Foufopoulos, 2008, Amph. Rept. Greece: 114-115. Sacchi, Razzetti, and Capula, 2007, in Lanza et al. (eds.), Fauna d'Italia, 42 (Amph.): 392-396, and Razzetti, Pellitteri-Rosa, Sacchi, Tiso, and Bernini, 2010, Atti VIII Congr. Naz. Soc. Herpetol. Ital. 2010: 341-347, discussed the introduced Italian population. Bressi, 2007, Atti Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Trieste, 53: 3-10, reported the species in Slovenia. Razzetti, Pellitteri-Rosa, Sacchi, Tiso, and Bernini, 2010, Atti VIII Congr. Naz. Soc. Herpetol. Ital. 2010: 341-347, discussed the expansion of the introduced range from Liguria into Piemonte and Lombardia, Italy.
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