Lithobates sierramadrensis (Taylor, 1939)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Lithobates > Species: Lithobates sierramadrensis

Rana sierramadrensis Taylor, 1939 "1938", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 25: 397. Holotype: EHT-HMS 3963B, by original designation; now FMNH 100038 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 64. Type locality: "near Agua de Obispo, between Rincón and Cajones, Guerrero", Mexico.

Rana (Rana) sierramadrensisDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41-42, by implication.

Rana (Sierrana) sierramadrensisDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 330; Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336, by implication; Yuan, Zhou, Chen, Poyarkov, Chen, Jang-Liaw, Chou, Matzke, Iizuka, Min, Kuzmin, Zhang, Cannatella, Hillis, and Che, 2016, Syst. Biol., 65: 835.

Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Torrentirana) sierramadrensisHillis and Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 305. See Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 317-330, Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 331-338, and Dubois, 2007, Cladistics, 23: 390-402, for relevant discussion of nomenclature. Invalid name formulation under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) as discussed by Dubois, 2007, Cladistics, 23: 395.

Lithobates sierramadrensisFrost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 369. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13; by implication.

Lithobates (Lithobates) sierramadrensisDubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.

Rana (Torrentirana) sierramadrensisHillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336, by implication. Torrentirana is an objective synonym of Zweifelia Dubois, 1992, according to Dubois, 2007, Cladistics, 23: 392

English Names

Sierra Madre Occidental Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 27; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109) [Note-This frog does not occur in the Sierra Madre Occidental—DRF.]

Sierra Madre Frog (; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 17).

Distribution

Conifer forests at intermediate elevations of the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero and Oaxaca, southern Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Sole member of the Rana (Sierrana) sierramadrensis group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 330. In the Rana palmipes group of Hillis and de Sá, 1988, Herpetol. Monogr., 2: 1-26. See review by Webb, 1978, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 300: 1-13. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana sierramadrensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 512.

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