Lithobates
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 Bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus
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| 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
- ^ Dubois, A., 1992. Notes sur la classification des Ranidae (Amphibiens Anoures). Bull. Société Linnéenne de Lyon 61, 305–352.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
