Lithobates

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Bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus
Bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Lithobates
Fitzinger, 1843
Type Species
Rana palmipes
(=Lithobates palmipes)
Spix, 1824

Lithobates is a genus of frogs. Species include the Bullfrog, the Crawfish Frog, and the extinct Vegas Valley Leopard Frog. Lithobates was previously considered a subgenus of Rana [1]. Currently Lithobates is considered a valid genus.[2][3]

[edit] Species

  • Crawfish Frog, Lithobates areolatus (Baird and Girard, 1852)
  • Rio Grande Leopard Frog, Lithobates berlandieri (Baird, 1859)
  • Plains Leopard Frog, Lithobates blairi (Mecham, Littlejohn, Oldham, Brown, and Brown, 1973)
  • Browns' Frog, Lithobates brownorum (Sanders, 1973)
  • Rio Chipillico Frog, Lithobates bwana (Hillis and de Sá, 1988)
  • Florida Gopher Frog, Lithobates capito (LeConte, 1855)
  • Bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw, 1802)
  • Lithobates chichicuahutla (Cuellar, Méndez-De La Cruz, and Villagrán-Santa Cruz, 1996)
  • Chiricahua Leopard Frog, Lithobates chiricahuensis (Platz and Mecham, 1979)
  • Green Frog, Lithobates clamitans (Latreille In Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801)
  • Patzcuaro Frog, Lithobates dunni Zweifel, 1957
  • Vegas Valley Leopard Frog, Lithobates fisheri (Stejneger, 1893) †
  • Forrer’s Grass Frog, Lithobates forreri (Boulenger, 1883)
  • Pig Frog, Lithobates grylio (Stejneger, 1901)
  • Heckscher's Frog, Lithobates heckscheri (Wright, 1924)
  • Moores Frog, Lithobates johni (Blair, 1965)
  • Maya Mountains Frog, Lithobates juliani (Hillis and de Sá, 1988)
  • Lithobates lemosespinali (Smith and Chiszar, 2003)
  • Guatemala Plateau Frog, Lithobates macroglossa (Brocchi, 1877)
  • Highland Frog, Lithobates maculatus (Brocchi, 1877)
  • Northwest Mexico Leopard Frog, Lithobates magnaocularis (Frost and Bagnara, 1974)
  • Bigfoot Leopard Frog, Lithobates megapoda (Taylor, 1942)
  • Little Corn Island Frog, Lithobates miadis (Barbour and Loveridge, 1929)
  • Montezuma's Frog, Lithobates montezumae (Baird, 1854)
  • Transverse Volcanic Leopard Frog, Lithobates neovolcanicus (Hillis and Frost, 1985)
  • Florida Bog Frog, Lithobates okaloosae (Moler, 1985)
  • Guerreran Leopard Frog, Lithobates omiltemanus (Günther, 1900)
  • Relict Leopard Frog, Lithobates onca (Cope In Yarrow, 1875)
  • Amazon River Frog or Spring Chicken, Lithobates palmipes (Spix, 1824)
  • Pickerel Frog, Lithobates palustris (LeConte, 1825)
  • Northern Leopard Frog, Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)
  • Lithobates psilonota (Webb, 2001)
  • Puebla Frog, Lithobates pueblae (Zweifel, 1955)
  • Cascade Frog, Lithobates pustulosus (Boulenger, 1883)
  • Mink Frog, Lithobates septentrionalis (Baird, 1854)
  • Dusky Gopher Frog, Lithobates sevosus (Goin and Netting, 1940)
  • Sierra Madre Occidental Frog, Lithobates sierramadrensis (Taylor, 1939)
  • Showy Leopard Frog, Lithobates spectabilis (Hillis and Frost, 1985)
  • Southern Leopard Frog, Lithobates sphenocephalus (Cope, 1886)
  • Wood Frog, Lithobates sylvaticus (LeConte, 1825)
  • Mexican Frog, Lithobates tarahumarae (Boulenger, 1917)
  • Peralta Frog, Lithobates taylori (Smith, 1959)
  • Tlaloc’s Leopard Frog, Lithobates tlaloci (Hillis and Frost, 1985)
  • Vaillant’s Frog, Lithobates vaillanti (Brocchi, 1877)
  • Rancho Redondo Frog, Lithobates vibicarius (Cope, 1894)
  • Cope’s Frog, Lithobates virgatipes (Cope, 1891)
  • Warszewitsch's Frog, Lithobates warszewitschii (Schmidt, 1857)
  • Lowland Leopard Frog, Lithobates yavapaiensis (Platz and Frost, 1984)
  • Zweifel’s Frog, Lithobates zweifeli (Hillis, Frost, and Webb, 1984)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dubois, A., 1992. Notes sur la classification des Ranidae (Amphibiens Anoures). Bull. Société Linnéenne de Lyon 61, 305–352.
  2. ^ Frost, Darrel R. 2006. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 4 (17 August 2006). Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
  3. ^ Frost et al. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Number 297. New York. Issued March 15, 2006.
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