Lithobates clamitans

Lithobates clamitans

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Lithobates
Species: Lithobates clamitans
Subspecies: L. c. clamitans – L. c. melanota

Name

• Lithobates clamitans Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801
  • Type locality: "la Caroline, près de Charlestown [= Charleston]", South Carolina, USA.
  • Holotype: MNHNP 1397.

Synonyms

• Rana clamitans Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801
  • Rana clamata — Daudin, 1802
  • Rana calamitans — Bosc, 1803
  • Ranaria (Rana) melanota Rafinesque, 1820
  • Rana fontinalis LeConte, 1825
  • Rana flaviviridis Harlan, 1826
  • Rana horiconensis Holbrook, 1838
  • Rana nigricans Agassiz, 1850
  • Rana clamator — LeConte, 1855
  • Rana nigrescens — LeConte, 1855
  • Rana clamitans melanota — Rhoads, 1895
  • Rana (Rana) clamitans — Guibé, 1950
  • Rana (Aquarana) clamitans — Dubois, 1992
  • Rana (Novirana, Aquarana) clamitans — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
  • Lithobates clamitans — Frost et al. 2006
  • Lithobates (Aquarana) clamitans — Dubois, 2006
  • Lithobates clamitans — Crother, 2012

References

• Crother, B.I. (2012). Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding. 7th ed. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles: Herpetological Circular no. 39. 92pp. PDF
• Dubois, A. 1992. Notes sur la classification des Ranidae (Amphibiens anoures). Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 61(10): 305–352. PDF Reference page. 
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M., & Wheeler W.C. 2006. The Amphibian Tree OF Life. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Number 297, 370 pp., 71 figures, 5 tables, 7 appendices PDF
• Hillis, D.M. & Wilcox, T.P. 2005. Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(2): 299–314. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.007 ; ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Hillis, D. M. (2007). Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 331–338. PDF fulltext
• Gray, E.P., Nunziata, S., Snodgrass, J.W., Ownby, D.R. & Havel, J.E. 2010: Predation on Green Frog Eggs (Rana clamitans) by Ostracoda. Copeia, 2010 (3) 452–456. DOI: 10.1643/CH-09-074
• Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 (An. X), Hist. Nat. Rept., 2: 157.
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Lithobates clamitans  (Least Concern) Downloaded on 01 July 2008. (as Rana clamitans)

Vernacular names

English: Green Frog
français: Grenouille verte
Nederlands: Schreeuwkikker
svenska: Grön groda
中文: 青铜蛙