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Tarahumara Frog
Lithobates tarahumarae (Boulenger, 1917)

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

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona

First instance(s) of published English names:
Tarahumare Frog (Rana tarahumarae: 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:
1917 Boulenger, George A. Descriptions of new frogs of the genus Rana. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8 20 413–418():
1968 Zweifel, Richard G. Rana tarahumarae. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (66):1-2
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.

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