Rana sphenocephala

Rana sphenocephala

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neobatrachia
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Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Rana
Species: Rana sphenocephala
Subspecies: R. s. sphenocephala – R. s. utricularia

Name

Rana sphenocephala Cope, 1886

Type locality: "in a sulphur spring, near the St. John's River, about three hundred miles from Key West", Florida, USA.

Neotype: UMMZ 56130.

Synonyms

• Rana virescens plantis tetradactylis Kalm, 1761
• Rana utricularius Harlan, 1826
• Rana oxyrhynchus Hallowell, 1856
• Rana halecina sphenocephala Cope, 1886
• Rana virescens virescens Cope, 1889
• Rana virescens sphenocephala — Cope, 1889
• Rana sphenocephala — Stejneger & Barbour, 1917
• Rana pipiens sphenocephala — Stejneger & Barbour, 1943
• Rana utricularia utricularia — Pace, 1974
• Rana utricularia sphenocephala — Pace, 1974
• Rana (Rana) sphenocephala — Dubois, 1987
• Rana (Pantherana) sphenocephala — Dubois, 1992
• Rana sphenocephala utricularius — Collins, 1997
• Rana sphenocephala sphenocephala — Collins, 1997
• Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) sphenocephalus sphenoce — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
• Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) sphenocephalus utricula — Hillis & Wilcox
• Lithobates sphenocephalus — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
• Lithobates (Lithobates) sphenocephalus sphenocephalus — Dubois, 2006
• Lithobates (Lithobates) sphenocephalus utricularius — Dubois, 2006

References

• Cope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 517.
• Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 369.
• Hillis, D.M. & Wilcox, T.P. (2005): Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(2): 299–314. PDF fulltext
• Hillis, D. M. (2007) Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 331–338. PDF fulltext
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Rana sphenocephala (Least Concern) Downloaded on 02 July 2008. (as Rana sphenocephala)

Note

This species was briefly transferred to Lithobates by Frost et al., 2006, but was transferred back to Rana by Hillis, 2007.

Vernacular names

English: Southern Leopard Frog