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Southern Mountain Yellow-legged Frog
Rana muscosa Camp, 1917
RAH-nah — mus-KOE-suh

SSAR 9th Edition 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: 2023.12.19.08.58.43)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: California

First instance(s) of published English names:
Sierra Madre Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boylii muscosa: 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.); San Bernardino Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boyli muscosa: 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 Camp, Charles L. Notes on the systematic status of the toads and frogs of California. University of California Publications in Zoology 17:115–125
1968 Zweifel, Richard G. Rana muscosa. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (65):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.
2001 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
2001 Pope, Karen L. and Kathleen R. Matthews. Movement, ecology, and seasonal distribution of Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs, Rana mucosa, in a high-elevation Sierra Nevada basin. Copeia 2001(3):787-793

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