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Amphibia
Anura
Ranidae
Vegas Valley Leopard Frog
Lithobates fisheri
(Stejneger, 1893)
Current SSAR Comments:
Previously considered to be extinct. Hekkala et al. (2011, Conservation Genetics 12: 1379–1385) used DNA sequence data from museum specimens to show that
L. fisheri
and frogs ascribed to
L. chiricahuensis
from near the Mogollon Rim in central Arizona comprise a lineage distinct from
R. chiricahuensis
populations to the south and east. Platz (1993, Journal of Herpetology 27: 154–162) previously noted the various lines of evidence suggesting that
L. chiricahuensis
was composed of more than one species, with the population in central Arizona being notably distinctive. Still, it was not possible, at that time, to compare those frogs genetically with
L. fisheri
.
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.12.14.08.06.11)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Vegas Valley Leopard Frog
(
Rana pipiens fisheri
: 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:
1893
Stejneger, Leonard. Annotated list of the reptiles and batrachians collected by the Death Valley Expedition in 1891, with descriptions of new species. North American Fauna 7():159–228
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