Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Ascaphus truei montanus Mittleman and Myers, 1949, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 62: 64. Holotype: USNM 102505, by original designation. Type locality: "tributary of Lincoln Creek, Glacier National Park, Flathead County, Montana", USA.

Ascaphus montanus — Nielson, Lohman, and Sullivan, 2001, Evolution, 55: 147.

English Names

Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 57; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 5; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Green, Highton, Iverson, McDiarmid, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Tilley, and Wake, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 196; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 4 Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 8; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 14).

Distribution

High-gradient stream areas of western Montana and northern Idaho in northeastern Oregon and southwestern Washington, USA; extreme southeastern British Columbia (Canada).

Comment

See comments under Ascaphus truei and Ascaphus. Nielson, Lohman, Daugherty, Allendorf, Knudsen, and Sullivan, 2006, Herpetologica, 62: 235-258, supported the previous distinction of Ascaphus montanus and Ascaphus truei, and noted that two "Evolutionarily Significant Units" (i.e., species under phylogenetic or evolutionary definitions—DRF) within Ascaphus montanus: 1) populations south of the South Fork of the Salmon River, and 2) populations to the north and west of the Salmon River (including the Blue, Wallowa, and Seven Devils Mountains).

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• To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
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