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Amphibia
Anura
Ranidae
Rio Grande Leopard Frog
Lithobates berlandieri
(Baird, 1859)
Current SSAR Comments:
Geographic variation is not well documented and relationships with extralimital Mexican forms will require considerable morphological and nDNA work to resolve.
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Berlandier's Frog
(
Rana halecina berlandieri
: Yarrow, Henry C.
1882
. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249);
Leopard-frog
(
Rana pipiens
: Stejneger, Leonard and Thomas Barbour.
1917
. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp.);
Leopard Frog
(
Rana pipiens
: Strecker, John K.
1922
. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31);
Berlandier's Frog
(
Rana pipiens berlandieri
: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright.
1933
. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.);
Rio Grande Leopard Frog
(
Rana pipiens berlandieri
: Schmidt, Karl P.
1953
. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Taxon Links:
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
NatureServe
iNaturalist
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Pertinent LIterature:
1859
Baird, Spencer F. Reptiles of the Boundary, in: Volume 2, pt. 2 United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, U.S. 34th Congress, 1st Session, Executive Document 108. 1-35pp.
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