Rana aurora

Rana aurora

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Rana
Species: Rana aurora

Name

Rana aurora Baird & Girard, 1852

Type locality: "Puget Sound", Washington, USA.

Syntypes: USNM 11711 (4 specimens).

Synonyms

• Rana aurora Baird & Girard, 1852
• Rana temporaria aurora — Cope, 1875
• Rana agilis aurora — Cope, 1886
• Rana aurora aurora — Camp, 1917
• Rana (Rana) aurora — Dubois, 1987
• Rana (Aurorana) aurora — Dubois, 1992
• Rana aurora — Shaffer, Fellers, Voss, Oliver & Pauly, 2004
• Rana (Laurasiarana, Amerana) aurora — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
• Rana (Amerana) aurora — Dubois, 2006

References

• Baird and Girard, 1852, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 174.
• Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., 329: 830.
• Frost, Darrel R. 2014. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Rana aurora . Accessed on 05 July 2008.
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Rana aurora. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.

• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Rana aurora (Near Threatened) Downloaded on 05 July 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Red-legged Frog