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Dusky Gopher Frog
Lithobates sevosus (Goin and Netting, 1940)

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: 2023.12.14.13.52.54)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Louisiana Mississippi

First instance(s) of published English names:
Gopher-Frog (Rana aesopus: 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.); Florida Gopher Frog (Rana aesopus: 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.); Florida Frog (Rana aesopus: 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.); Southern Gopher Frog (Rana aesopus: 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.); Snake Frog (Rana aesopus: 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.); Gopher Frog (Rana capito: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Dark Gopher Frog (Rana capito sevosa: 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

Selected References:
1940 Goin, Coleman J. and M. Graham Netting. A new gopher frog from the Gulf Coast, with comments upon the Rana areolata group. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 28(28):137-168
1983 Altig, Ronald and Ren Lohefener. Rana areolata. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (324):1-4
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.
2001 Richter, Stephen C., Jeanne E. Young, Richard A. Seigel, and Glen N. Johnson. Postbreeding movements of the dark gopher frog, Rana sevosa Goin and Netting: Implications for conservation and management. Journal of Herpetology 35(2):316-321
2001 Young, Jeanne E., and Brian I. Crother. Allozyme evidence for the separation of Rana areolata and Rana capito and for the resurrection of Rana sevosa. Copeia 2001(2):382-388
2002 Richter, Stephen C. and Richard A. Seigel. Annual variation in the population ecology of the endangered Gopher Frog, Rana sevosa Goin and Netting. Copeia 2002(4):962-972
2004 Richter, Stephen C. Genetic studies in a demographic framework: Annual variation, inbreeding history, and effects of isolation in a rare group of amphibians. Dissertation. University of Oklahoma, Norman. 132pp.
2005 Richter, Stephen C. and Richard E. Broughton. Development and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite DNA loci for the endangered dusky gopher frog, Rana sevosa, and two closely related species, Rana capito and Rana areolata. Molecular Ecology Notes 5():436-438
2009 Richter, Stephen C., Brian I. Crother and Richard E. Broughton. Genetic consequences of population reduction and geographic isolation in the critically endangered frog, Rana sevosa. Copeia 2009(4):799-806

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