Rana palmipes

Amazon River Frog
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Ranidae
Genus:	Rana
Species:	R. palmipes
Binomial name
*Rana palmipes* Spix, 1824
Synonyms
Lithobates palmipes (Spix, 1824) Rana affinis Peters, 1859 Ranula gollmerii Peters, 1859

The Amazon River Frog, Rana palmipes^[1], is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. In Spanish, it is known as rana verde verdadera.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, rivers, freshwater lakes, and freshwater marshes. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

Footnotes

^ Hillis & Wilcox (2005), Hillis (2007), Pauly et al. (2009)

References

Hillis, D.M., and de Sá, R. (1984): Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Rana palmipes species group (Salientia: Ranidae). Herpetological Monographs 2: 1-26.
Hillis, D.M. & Wilcox, T.P. (2005): Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 34(2): 299–314. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.007 PMID 15619443 PDF fulltext.
Hillis, D. M. (2007) Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 42: 331–338.
La Marca, E., Azevedo-Ramos, C., Coloma, L.A., Ron, S. & Hardy, J. 2004. Rana palmipes. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.
Pauly, Greg B., Hillis, David M. & Cannatella, David C. (2009): Taxonomic freedom and the role of official lists of species names. Herpetologica 65: 115-128. PDF fulltext