Lithobates adleri (Pérez-Ramos, 2023)

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

Rana adleri Pérez-Ramos, 2023, Rev. Zool., Mexico, 35: 4. Holotype: MZFC 22763, by original designation. Type locality: "México, Sinaloa, Mpio. Culiacán, Dren Proto, 24.802104, -107.509150, ca. 14 m". 

Lithobates adleri — Here (21 February 2023), to conform to the taxonomy adopted by this catalogue, most recently supported by Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 733. See Lithobates synonymy. 

English Names

Mayo Leopard Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Coastal plain of west-central Sonora south to the Culiacán region of Sinaloa, Mexico, mostly associated with irrigated farmland. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Formerly confused with Lithobates forreri, separable by genetic markers and morphology according to the original publication, where this taxon was stated to be the Rana forreri 1 of Zaldívar-Riverón, León-Regagnon, and Nieto-Montes de Oca, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 30: 41, which was delimited on mtDNA markers. Rorabaugh and Lemos-Espinal, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Sonora: 187–189, provided a detailed account (as Lithobates forreri) of natural history, morphology, distribution, and conservation status in Sonora, Mexico, for populations now associated with Lithobates cora and Lithobates adleri.

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