Pseudacris ornata (Holbrook, 1836)

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

Rana ornata Holbrook, 1836, N. Am. Herpetol., 1: 97. Type(s): Frog figured in pl 16; not now known to exist. Type locality: ". . . only in South Carolina . . . about four miles from Charleston, between the Cooper and Ashley rivers . . .", Charleston County, South Carolina, USA. Senior secondary homonym of Pyxicephalus ornatus when that taxon is in Rana.

Cystignathus ornatus — Holbrook, 1842, N. Am. Herpetol., Ed. 2, 4: 103.

Litoria occidentalis Baird and Girard, 1853, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 301. Type(s): Not stated although presumably originally in USNM or ANSP. Type locality: "San Francisco", California, USA, in error according to Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 32; restricted to Liberty County, Georgia, USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 76. Synonymy by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 76.

Chorophilus ornatus — LeConte, 1855, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 428.

Cystignathus ornatus — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 29.

Chorophilus copii Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 334. Holotype: BMNH 1858.2.23.55, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 170. Type locality: "Georgia", USA. Synonymy with Litoria occidentalis by Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 335. Synonymy by Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 351.

Chorophilus occidentalis — Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 335.

Hyla copii — Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 165: 266; Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5.

Pseudacris occidentalis — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 30.

Pseudacris ornata — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 31.

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

Pseudacris copii — Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 1.

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

Hyla weberi Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5. Replacement name for Chorophilus copii Boulenger, 1882.

Hyla (Pseudacris) ornata — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 85.

Pseudacris (Pycnacris) ornata — Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 362. 

Common Names

Ornate Land Frog (Cystignathus ornatus: Wood, 1863, Illust. Nat. Hist., 3: 161).

Smooth Chorus Frog (Chorophilus occidentalis [no longer recognized]: Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 158; Wood, 1863, Illust. Nat. Hist., 3: 151)

Western Chorus Frog (Chorophilus occidentalis [no longer recognized]: Strecker, 1915, Baylor Univ. Bull., 18: 48); Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x [as Pseudacris occidentalis]).

Ornate Tree Frog (Pseudacris ornata: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24).

Ornate Winter-Frog (Pseudacris ornata: Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 57).

Ornate Chorus Frog (Pseudacris ornata: Strecker, 1915, Baylor Univ. Bull., 18: 48; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 76; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 332; 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: 13; 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: 20; Frost, Lemmon, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 18).

Ornate Winter Frog (Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10).

Distribution

Atlantic Coastal Plain from southeastern North Carolina to central Florida, central and southern Alabama, central and southern Mississippi, and southeastern Louisiana, USA.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Alabama, United States of America - Florida, United States of America - Georgia, United States of America - Louisiana, United States of America - Mississippi, United States of America - North Carolina, United States of America - South Carolina

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

In the Pseudacris nigrita group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 106. For discussion see Harper, 1937, Am. Midl. Nat., 18: 260–272. Cocroft and Ryan, 1995, Animal Behav., 49: 283–303, discussed advertisement call in an evolutionary context. Reviewed by Glorioso, 2010, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 866: 1–8. Jensen, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 477–478, and Dodd, 2013, Frogs U.S. and Canada, 1: 395–400, provided account that summarized the relevant literature and range. Elliot, Gerhardt, and Davidson, 2009, Frogs and Toads of N. Am.: 82–83, provided an account, photos, and advertisement call. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 207–208, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Guyer and Bailey, 2023, Frogs and Toads of Alabama: 167–170, provided a detailed account for the species in Alabama, USA. 

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