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Lithobates bwana (Hillis and de Sá, 1988)
Rana bwana Hillis and de Sá, 1988, Herpetol. Monogr., 2: 3. Holotype: LACM 49205, by original designation. Type locality: "1.5 km S Las Lomas, Río Chipillico, Piura Department, Perú".
Rana (Lithobates) bwana — Dubois, 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, Ranula, Lithobates) bwana — Hillis 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 bwana — Frost, 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) bwana — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
English Names
Rio Chipillico Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).
Distribution
Pacific versant of the Huancabamba Depression, in tributaries of the Río Chira, in the Department of Piura, Peru, and the Province of Loja, Ecuador, elevations of 300-700 m.
Comment
A member of the Rana palmipes group of Hillis and de Sá, 1988, Herpetol. Monogr., 2: 1-26. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana bwana) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 501, who noted that this name may cover two species.
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