Pseudacris maculata (Agassiz, 1850)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Pseudacris > Species: Pseudacris maculata

Hylodes maculatus Agassiz, 1850, Lake Superior: 378. Syntypes: MCZ 38 (2 specimens), according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 281. Type locality: "Region of Lake Superior"; given as "North shore of Lake Superior", Canada by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 172; restricted to "vicinity of Sault Sainte Marie", Michigan, USA, and Ontario, Canada, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 75. Cook, 1964, Canad. Field Nat., 78: 191, discussed the type locality and restricted it to "vicinity of Fort William, Ontario", Canada.

Chorophilus septentrionalis Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 335–36. Holotype: BMNH 1850.4.22.8, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 172, now reregistered as 1936.12.3.121 according to museum records. Type locality: "Great Bear Lake", Northwest Territory, Canada. Synonymy by Smith, 1956, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 69: 171. 

Chorophilus nigritus septentrionalis — Dickerson, 1906, The Frog Book: 157.

Pseudacris septentrionalis — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 17.

Hyla septentrionalis — Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5, by implication.

Hyla canadensis Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5. Substitute name for Chorophilus septentrionalis Boulenger, preoccupied in Hyla by Hyla septentrionalis.

Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis — Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: 250; Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 32.

Pseudacris nigrita maculata — Smith, 1956, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 69: 171.

Pseudacris triseriata maculata — Schwartz, 1957, Am. Mus. Novit., 1838: 11.

Hyla (Pseudacris) triseriata maculata — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 86.

Pseudacris maculata — Platz, 1989, Copeia, 1989: 709.

Pseudacris (Pseudacris) maculata — Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 350.

Common Names

Boreal Chorus Frog (Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 67; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 329; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 12; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 12; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 10; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 7; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 19; Frost, Lemmon, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 18).

Western Marsh Frog (as Pseudacris triseriata sensu lato: Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 118).

Boreal Chorus Frog (Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis [no longer recognized]: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 75; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176).

Distribution

Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan (Canada), and Wisconsin south through Montana and Idaho into the mountains of southeastern Utah, and to northeastern Arizona and northern New Mexico, northern Oklahoma, northwestern Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, and western Indiana; disjunct populations in the Mogollon Rim region of Arizona and adjacent west-central New Mexico as well as in southern Ontario and southern Quebec (Canada) and into adjacent northern New York and northwestern Vermont (USA).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Canada, United States of America, United States of America - Arizona, United States of America - Colorado, United States of America - Idaho, United States of America - Indiana, United States of America - Iowa, United States of America - Kansas, United States of America - Minnesota, United States of America - Missouri, United States of America - Montana, United States of America - Nebraska, United States of America - New Mexico, United States of America - New York, United States of America - North Dakota, United States of America - Oklahoma, United States of America - South Dakota, United States of America - Utah, United States of America - Vermont, United States of America - Wisconsin, United States of America - Wyoming

Comment

In the Pseudacris nigrita group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 106. Elevated from subspecies status under Pseudacris triseriata by Platz, 1989, Copeia, 1989: 704–712, on the basis of widespread sympatry and differences in call structure (see Platz and Forester, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 1062–1066). See nomenclatural discussion by Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 86–87. Lemmon, Lemmon, Collins, Lee-Yaw, and Cannatella, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 1068–1082, redelimited the species. Dodd, 2013, Frogs U.S. and Canada, 1: 371–384, provided an account that summarized the relevant literature. Elliot, Gerhardt, and Davidson, 2009, Frogs and Toads of N. Am.: 94–95, provided an account, photos, and advertisement call. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 210–212, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Rogic, Tessier, Nöel, Gendron, Branchaud, and Lapointe, 2015, Herpetol. Rev., 46: 1–7, discussed the range in southern Ontario and southern Quebec, Canada, on the basis of calls and mtDNA analysis. Painter, Stuart, Giermakowski, and Pierce, 2017, Western Wildlife, 4: 36, commented on the status and county range in New Mexico, USA.  Rogic, Tessier, and Lapointe, 2019, J. Herpetol., 53: 89–95, characterized genetically he populations of southern Ontario and southern Quebec, Canada, for purposes of conservation. 

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