Rana graeca Boulenger, 1891

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Rana > Species: Rana graeca

Rana graeca Boulenger, 1891, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 8: 346. Syntypes: ZMB and BMNH; including BMNH 1947.2.1.50–59 (1890.2.11.6–15) by museum records; BMNH 1947.2.1.50 designated lectotype by Dubois, 1987 "1985", Alytes, 4: 137. Type locality: "Parnassos" and "Korax Mountains", Greece. Restricted to "Parnass", Greece" by Mertens and Müller, 1928, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 41: 20, and to "Parnassos", Greece, by lectotype designation.

Rana temporaria var. bosniensis Werner, 1897, Rept. Amph. Österr.: 92. Holotype: Not stated, but presumably NHMW. Type locality: "Travnik, Bosnien". Status rejected by Boulenger, 1898, Tailless Batr. Eur., 2: 307. Synonymy with Rana graeca by Werner, 1899, Wiss. Mitt. Bosnien Hercegov., 6: 826.

Rana (Rana) graeca graecaDubois, 1987 "1985", Alytes, 4: 137.

Rana (Rana) graecaDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41–42, by implication; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333; Yuan, Zhou, Chen, Poyarkov, Chen, Jang-Liaw, Chou, Matzke, Iizuka, Min, Kuzmin, Zhang, Cannatella, Hillis, and Che, 2016, Syst. Biol., 65: 835.

Rana (Laurasiarana) graecaHillis and Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 311, by implication; see Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 317–330, and Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 331–338, for discussion.

English Names

Graecian Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 148; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 122).

Greek Frog (Hellmich, 1962, Rept. Amph. Eur.: 66; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 122; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 57).

Stream Frog (Arnold and Burton, 1978, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Brit. Eur.: 82; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 57; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107; Asimakopoulous, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 140).

Balkan Stream Frog (Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 85).

Greek Stream Frog (Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 92).

Distribution

Balkan peninsula from Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and southern Bulgaria south through Albania and North Macedonia and throughout continental Greece; possibly into European Turkey.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia

Comment

In the Section Rana, subgenus Rana, Rana graeca group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333. See Rana italica. Asimakopoulous, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 140–141, discussed range and relevant literature. Nöllert and Nöllert, 1992, Die Amph. Eur.: 333–336, provided an account and polygon map.Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 85–86, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Naumov, 2005, Acta Zool. Bulgarica, 57: 391, provided records for Bulgaria. Valakos, Pafilis, Sotiropoulos, Lymberakis, Maragou, and Foufopoulos, 2008, Amph. Rept. Greece: 126–127, provided an account for Greece. Stojanov, Tzankov, and Naumov, 2011, Die Amph. Rept. Bulgariens: 207–214, provided a fairly detailed account and range map for Bulgaria. Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 176–179, provided a brief account and range map. Szabolcs, Mizsei, Jablonski, Vági, Mester, Végvári, and Lengyel, 2017, Amphibia-Reptilia, 38: 435–448, provided a dot map and discussion of range in Albania. Šunje, Jelić, and Vörös, 2018, Salamandra, 54: 278–282, reported on molecular phylogeography in the Balkan Peninsula. Urošević, Tomovic, Krizmanić, Anđelković, Golubović, Maričić, Ajtić, Ćorović, Čubrić, Tomašević-Kolarov, Cvijanovíc, Vukov, Jovanović, Vučić, Ajduković, Tot, Nadaždin, Labus, and Džukić, 2018, Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Belgrade, 11: 227–245, provided a dot map and discussion of habitat for Serbia. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 92, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Jablonski, Gkontas, Poursanidis, Lymberakis, and Poulakakis, 2021, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 132: 829–846, reported on molecular phylogeography.  

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