Pelophylax shqipericus

Pelophylax shqipericus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Pelophylax
Species: Pelophylax shqipericus

Name

Pelophylax shqipericus (Hotz, Uzzell, Günther, Tunner & Heppich, 1987)

• Holotype: ANSP 30211, adult ♂, collected by P. Beerli and H. Holtz on 30 April/1 June 1987.
• Type locality: “Virpazar, Skadarsko Jezero, Crna Gora, Yugoslavia [now Montenegro] (42°14′N, 19°05′E)”.

Combinations

• Rana shqiperica Hotz, Uzzell, Günther, Tunner & Heppich, 1987: 2
• Rana (Pelophylax) shqiperica — Dubois, 1992: 332 [subsequent combination]
• Hylarana shqipericus — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho & Somorjai, 2005: 237 [subsequent combination, by implication]
• Pelophylax shqipericus — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006: 369 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Hotz, H., Uzzell, T., Günther, R., Tunner, H.G. & Heppich, S. 1987. Rana shqiperica, a new European water frog species from the Adriatic Balkans (Amphibia, Salientia, Ranidae). Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 468: 1–3. Reference page. 
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 

Links

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2020. IUCN: Pelophylax shqipericus  (Vulnerable). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T58715A89697059. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58715A89697059.en. Accessed on 07 November 2022.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Skutari-Wasserfrosch
English: Balkan Pond Frog

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