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Lithobates zweifeli (Hillis, Frost, and Webb, 1984)
Rana zweifeli Hillis, Frost, and Webb, 1984, Copeia, 1984: 399. Holotype: KU 192466, by original designation. Type locality: "12 km E (by road) of Teloloapan, Guerrero, Mexico".
Rana (Rana) zweifeli — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41, by implication.
Rana (Zweifelia) zweifeli — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331; 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, Torrentirana, Zweifelia) zweifeli — 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 zweifeli — 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) zweifeli — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 830. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
English Names
Zweifel's Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 28; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 17).
Distribution
Confined primarily to the Balsas Depression of southern Mexico in the states of Morelos, Guerrero, Michoacan, Morelos, Puebla, and Mexico, but extends eastward into Oaxaca and northwestern into Jalisco and Colima.
Comment
In the Rana tarahumarae group of Hillis XXX, Rana pustulosa group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, and equivalent subgenus Zweifelia of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331. This species had been mistakenly referred to as Rana pustulosa in most literature. See comment under Rana pustulosa. See account by Webb, 2001, Mesoam. Herpetol.: 31-35 (who noted very confusing variation in this species as related to Rana psilonota and Rana pustulosa). Chávez-Juárez, Alcaraz-Cruz, and Valenzuela Galván, 2004, Herpetol. Rev., 35: 185, provided the Morelos, Mexico, record.
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