Lithobates sevosus

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 sevosus

Name

Lithobates sevosus Goin & Netting, 1940
- Type locality: "Slidell, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana", USA.
- Holotype: CM 16809.

Synonyms

Rana sevosa Goin & Netting, 1940
- Rana capito sevosa — Wright & Wright, 1942
- Rana areolata sevosa — Viosca, 1949
- Rana sevosa — Young & Crother, 2001
- Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Nenirana) sevosa — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
- Lithobates sevosus — Frost et al. 2006
- Lithobates (Lithobates) sevosus — Dubois, 2006
- Lithobates sevosus — 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. 2006. New proposals for naming lower-ranked taxa within the frame of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Comptes Rendus. Biologies. Paris 329: 823–840. PDF
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
Goin, C. J., and M. G. Netting. 1940. A new gopher frog from the Gulf Coast with comments upon the Rana areolata group. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Pittsburgh 28: 137–169.
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
2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Lithobates sevosus (Critically Endangered) Downloaded on 2 July 2008. (as Rana sevosa)

Note:

This species was briefly transferred to Lithobates by Frost et al., 2006, but was transferred back to Rana by Hillis, 2007.

Vernacular names

English: Dusky Gopher Frog