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Lithobates psilonota (Webb, 2001)
Rana psilonota Webb, 2001, Mesoam. Herpetol.: 28. Holotype: MSU 12909, by original designation. Type locality: "9.6 road kilometers (six miles via Highwa 15) northwest Sant Isabel, ca. 1158 m, Nayarit, México".
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Torrentirana, Zweifelia) psilonota — 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 psilonota — 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) psilonota — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 830; Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
Rana (Zweifelia) psilonota — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336, by implication; 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.
English Names
Smooth-backed Frog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 16).
Distribution
Mexican states of Aguascalientes, Zacatecas (southern), Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit, associated with tributaris of the Río Ameca and the Río Grande de Santiago drainages.
Comment
In the Rana tarahumarae group (= Rana pustulosa group) according to the original publication, formerly confused with Rana pustulosa. Ahumada-Carrillo, Vázquez-Huizar, Vázquez-Diaz, and García-Vázquez, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 397, provided a record for southern Zacatecas, Mexico, and discussed the range. Rodríguez-Canseco, Ayón-Escobedo, and González-Estupiñán, 2013, Herpetol. Rev., 44: 622, reported sympatry of this species with Lithobates spectabilis, Lithobates neovolcanicus, and Lithobates forreri. Bañuelos-Alamillo, Quintero-Díaz, and Carbajal-Márquez, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 173, provided a record from the Municipio de Valparaiso, Zacatecas, Mexico.
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