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Amerana sierrae (Camp, 1917)
Rana boylii sierrae Camp, 1917, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 17: 120. Holotype: MVZ 3734, by original designation. Type locality: "Matlack Lake, 10,500 feet altitude, two miles southeast of Kearsarge Pass, Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, California", USA. Synonymy by
Rana sierrae — Vredenburg, Bingham, Knapp, Morgan, Moritz, and Wake, 2007, J. Zool., London, 271: 370.
Rana (Rana) sierrae — Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 398.
Rana (Amerana) sierrae — Yuan, Zhou, Chen, Poyarkov, Chen, Jang-Liaw, Chou, Matzke, Iizuka, Min, Kuzmin, Zhang, Cannatella, Hillis, and Che, 2016, Syst. Biol., 65: 835.
Amerana sierrae — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 424.
English Names
Sierra Yellow-legged Frog (Grinnell and Storer, 1924, Animal Life in the Yosemite: 663; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176).
Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog (Storer, 1925, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 27: 43; Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 139; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: xi; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 84; Vredenburg, Bingham, Knapp, Morgan, Moritz, and Wake, 2007, J. Zool., London, 271: 370; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 11; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 9; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 21; Frost, Lemmon, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 19).
Distribution
Sierra Nevada of California and extreme western Nevada (near Lake Tahoe), 4500-1200 ft. elevation south to its type locality in Inyo County, California, USA.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - California, United States of America - Nevada
Endemic: United States of America
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Rana muscosa by Vredenburg, Bingham, Knapp, Morgan, Moritz, and Wake, 2007, J. Zool., London, 271: 370, where it had been placed by Zweifel, 1955, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 54: 229. See comment under Rana muscosa. Vredenburg, Bingham, Knapp, Morgan, Moritz, and Wake, 2007, J. Zool., London, 271: 361-374, discussed the systematics of this species and its disappearance from large parts of its former range. Dodd, 2013, Frogs U.S. and Canada, 2 : 747–752, provided an account that summarized relevant literature. Elliot, Gerhardt, and Davidson, 2009, Frogs and Toads of N. Am.: 250–253, provided an account, photos, and advertisement call.
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