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Carpenter Frog
Lithobates virgatipes (Cope, 1891)

Current SSAR Comments:
Data provided by Pytel (1986, Herpetologica 42: 273–282) suggest that careful evaluation for cryptic species is warranted.

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:
USA: Delaware Florida Georgia Maryland New Jersey North Carolina South Carolina Virginia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Carpenter Frog (Rana virgatipes: 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:
1891 Cope, Edward D. A new species of frog from New Jersey. American Naturalist 25():1017–1019
1968 Gosner, Kenneth L. and Black, Irving H. Rana virgatipes. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (67):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.
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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