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Discoglossus jeanneae Busack, 1986

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Alytidae > Genus: Discoglossus

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Discoglossus jeanneae Busack, 1986, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 55: 54. Holotype: CM 54657, by original designation. Type locality: "along highway C-440, 15 km ESE Alcalá de los Gazules, Cádiz Province, Spain".

Discoglossus galganoi jeanneae — Nascetti, Capula, Lanza, and Bullini, 1986, Boll. Zool., Padua, 53: 57. Lanza, Nascetti, Capula, and Bullini, 1986, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 40: 16; Capula and Corti, 1993, J. Zool., London, 231: 141-156; Zangari, Cimmaruta, and Nascetti, 2006, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 87: 527; Pabijan, Crottini, Reckwell, Irisarri, Hauswaldt, and Vences, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 64: 690-696.

Discoglossus jeanneae — García-París and Jockusch, 1999, J. Zool., London, 248: 209.

English Names

Spanish Painted Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51).

East Iberian Painted Frog (Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 63).

Distribution

Limestone and gypsum substrates in most of eastern Spain from the Strait of Gibralter to the Pyrenees.

Comment

See comment under Discoglossus galganoi for discussion of the controversies surrounding recognition of this taxon as a species distinct from Discoglossus galganoi. García-París, 1997, in Pleguezuelos (ed.), Dist. Biogeogr. Anf. Rep. Esp. Portugal: 134-136, provided brief accounts and detailed map. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 615. Rivera, Escoriza, Maluquer-Margalef, Arribas, and Carranza, 2011, Amf. Rept. Catalunya: 66-68, provided a brief account for northeastern Spain.

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