Lithobates areolatus

Lithobates areolatus

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: Lithobates
Species: Lithobates areolatus
Subspecies: L. a. areolatus – L. a. circulosus

Name

• Lithobates areolatus Baird & Girard, 1852
  • Type locality: "Indianola, [Calhoun County, Texas] and [apparently in error] . . . on the Rio San Pedro of the Gila [Arizona]", USA.
  • Lectotype: USNM 3304.

Synonyms

• Rana areolata Baird & Girard, 1852
  • Rana areolata areolata — Cope, 1875
  • Rana circulosa Rice & Davis, 1878
  • Rana areolata circulosa — Davis & Rice, 1883
  • Rana octoplicata Werner, 1893
  • Rana virescens areolata — Cole & Barbour, 1906
  • Rana areolata areolata — Neill, 1957
  • Rana areolata circulosa — Neill, 1957
  • Rana (Rana) areolata — Dubois, 1987
  • Rana (Pantherana) areolata — Dubois, 1992
  • Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Nenirana) areolata — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
  • Lithobates areolatus — Frost et al. 2006
  • Lithobates (Lithobates) areolatus — Dubois, 2006
  • Lithobates areolatus — Frost et al. 2009
  • Lithobates areolatus — Crother, 2012

References

• Baird, S.F. & Girard, C. 1852. Characteristics of some new reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Third Part. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6: 173. BHL Reference page. 
• Crother, B.I. (2012). Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding. 7th ed. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles: Herpetological Circular no. 39. 92pp. PDF
• Dubois, A. 1992. Notes sur la classification des Ranidae (Amphibiens anoures). Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 61(10): 305–352. PDF Reference page. 
• Dubois, A. 2006. New proposals for naming lower-ranked taxa within the frame of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Comptes Rendus. Biologies. Paris 329: 823–840. PDF
• 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., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M., & Wheeler W.C. 2006. The Amphibian Tree OF Life. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Number 297, 370 pp., 71 figures, 5 tables, 7 appendices PDF
• Frost, D. R., McDiamid, R. & J. R. Mendelson III. 2009. Response to the point of view of Gregory B. Pauly, David M. Hillis, and David C. Cannatella, by the Anuran subcommittee of the SSAR/HL/ASIH scientific and standard English names list. Herpetologica, 65(2), 2009, 136–153. PDF
• Hillis, D.M. & Wilcox, T.P. 2005. Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(2): 299–314. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.007 ; ResearchGate Reference page. 
• 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: Lithobates areolatus  (Unknown category) Downloaded on 01 July 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Crawfish Frog