Lithobates
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Lithobates
Fitzinger, 1843
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Lithobates is a subgenus of true frogs, of the family Ranidae. The name was defined by Hillis et al. for a subgenus of four Central and South American frogs within the genus Rana.[1][2] The name is derived from litho- (stone) and the Greek bates (βάτης, one who treads), meaning who treads on rock or rock climber.[3][4]
The name was later used by Frost et al. as the name of a separate genus of ranid frogs that also includes most of the North American frogs traditionally included in the genus Rana,[5] including the American bullfrog and northern leopard frog. Frost used the name in this sense in the frog section of a North American common names list edited by Crother (2008).[6] This proposed change has since been rejected in all recent systematic reviews, such as Stuart (2008)[7] and Pauly et al. (2009).[8] AmphibiaWeb,[9] an online compendium of amphibian names, also does not recognize Lithobates as a distinct genus, but Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an online reference, continues to use Lithobates as a genus,[10] even though its recognition would render the rest of Rana paraphyletic (Hillis, 2007; Pauly et al., 2009).
Species
- Rana bwana Hillis and de Sá, 1988 – Rio Chipillico frog
- Rana catesbeiana Shaw, 1802 – American Bullfrog
- Rana grylio Stejneger, 1901 – Pig frog
- Rana juliani Hillis and de Sá, 1988 – Maya Mountains frog
- Rana palmipes Spix, 1824 – Amazon River frog
- Rana vaillanti Brocchi, 1877 – Vaillant's frog
References
- ↑ Hillis, David M. & Wilcox, Thomas P. (2005). Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 34: 299–314. PDF fulltext
- ↑ Hillis, David M. (2007). Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 42: 331–338. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.001 PMID 16997582 PDF fulltext
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- ↑ βάτης. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project one that treads or covers
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2006). Amphibian Species of the World Version 3 - Petropedetidae Noble, 1931. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Retrieved 2006-AUG-05., Frost, Darrel R. et al. (2006): The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Number 297. New York.
- ↑ Crother, B.I. (ed.) (2008). Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North American north of Mexico - [1]. SSAR Herptological Circular 37:1-84.
- ↑ Stuart, Bryan L. (2008). The phylogenetic problem of Huia (Amphibia: Ranidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 46(1): 49-60. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.09.016 (HTMl abstract)
- ↑ Pauly, Greg B., Hillis, David M. & Cannatella, David C. (2009). Taxonomic freedom and the role of official lists of species names. Herpetologica 65: 115-128. PDF fulltext
- ↑ AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. (2012). Berkeley, California: Rana. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: August 20, 2012).
- ↑ Lithobates, American Museum of Natural History.
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