Red-legged Frog
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Red-legged Frog is a common name for two alike kinds of frog of the west coast of North America, which are also known, in distinction from each other, as the Northern Red-legged Frog and the California Red-legged Frog. These two kinds have long been thought mere subspecies of Rana aurora, respectively R. a. aurora and R. a. draytonii, with "Red-legged Frog" accordingly applying to that species as a whole. Genetic evidence, though, points to their being two distinct species, respectively Rana aurora and Rana draytonii. [1]
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- ^ Shaffer, H. Bradley, G. M. Fellers, S. Randal Voss, J. C. Olive and Gregory B. Pauly (2004) Species boundaries, phylogeography and conservation genetics of the red-legged frog (Rana aurora/draytonii) complex. Molecular Ecology 13(9): 2667-2677)
