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Mink Frog
Lithobates septentrionalis (Baird, 1854)

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.09.21.53.11)
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Province/State Distribution:
Canada: Labrador Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland Nova Scotia Ontario Quebec
USA: Maine Michigan Minnesota New Hampshire New York Vermont Wisconsin

First instance(s) of published English names:
Rocky Mountain Frog (Rana septentrionalis: 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); Mink Frog (Rana septentrionalis: Garnier, J. H. 1883. The Mink or Hoosier Frog. The American Naturalist 17(9):945-954); Hoosier Frog (Rana septentrionalis: Garnier, J. H. 1883. The Mink or Hoosier Frog. The American Naturalist 17(9):945-954); Northern Frog (Rana septentrionalis: Hay, Oliver P. 1892. Batrachians and Reptiles of the State of Indiana. Pages 409-624 in 17th Annual Report of the Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources, William B. Burford, Printer and Binder, Indianapolis, Indiana. pp.); Mink-frog (Rana septentrionalis: Stejneger, Leonhard H. and Thomas Barbour. 1917. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp.); Hoosier Frog (Rana septentrionalis: 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.); Mink-frog (Rana septentrionalis: 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.); Northern Frog (Rana septentrionalis: 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.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1854 Baird, Spencer F. Descriptions of new genera and species of North American frogs. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7():59–62
1883 Garnier, J. H. The Mink or Hoosier Frog. The American Naturalist 17(9):945-954
1977 Hedeen, Stanley E. Rana septentrionalis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (202):1-2
1980 Kramek, William C. and Margaret M. Stewart. Ontogenetic and sexual differences in the pattern of Rana septentrionalis. Journal of Herpetology 14(4):369-376
1985 Hillis, David M. Evolutionary genetics and systematics of New World frogs of the genus Rana: An analysis of ribosomal DNA, allozymes, and morphology. Dissertation. University of Kansas, Lawrence. pp.
2003 Austin, James D., Stephen C. Lougheed, Paul E. Moler, and Peter T. Boag. Phylogenetics, zoogeography, and the role of dispersal and vicariance in the evolution of the Rana catesbeiana (Anura: Ranidae) species group. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 80():601-624
2022 MacGuigan, Daniel J., Genevieve G. Mount, Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell, Thomas J. Near, and Max R. Lambert. Genomic data clarify Aquarana systematics and reveal isolation-by-distance dominates phylogeography of the wide-ranging frog Rana clamitans. Ichthyology & Herpetology 110(3):602-617

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