Foothill Yellow-legged Frog
Rana boylii
Baird, 1854
RAH-nah — BOY-lee-eye
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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Taxonomic Etymology:
Boyle’s frog, named after a 19th-century American naturalist.
Rana — From Latin: rana = “frog”; This is the classical Latin word for a frog and has long been used as a generic name for true frogs in taxonomy.
boylii — Patronym honoring Charles E. Boyle (1821–1870), a physician and naturalist who collected the type specimens in northern California in 1850. Latinized genitive form of Boyle → boylii = “of Boyle”.
First instance(s) of published English names:
Boyle's Frog (Rana boylei: Cooper, James G. 1869. The fauna of California and its geographical distribution. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4():61-81); California Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boylii boylii: 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.); Thick-skinned Frog (Rana boylii boylii: 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.); Boyle's Frog (Rana boylii boylii: 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.); Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boyli: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); California Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boyli boyli: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1854
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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
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1966
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Dumas, Philip C. Studies of the Rana species complex in the Pacific Northwest. Copeia 1966(1):60-74
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1968
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Zweifel, Richard G. Rana boylii. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (71):1-2
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1985
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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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2001
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Macey, J. Robert, Jared L. Strasburg, Jennifer A. Brisson, Bance T. Vredenburg, Mark Jennings and Allan Larson. Molecular phylogenetics of western North American frogs of the Rana boylii species group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 19(1):131-143
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