Lithobates sphenocephala

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

Lithobates sphenocephala Cope, 1886
- Type locality: "in a sulphur spring, near the St. John's River, about three hundred miles from Key West", Florida, USA.
- Neotype: UMMZ 56130.

Rana virescens plantis tetradactylis Kalm, 1761
Rana utricularius Harlan, 1826
Rana oxyrhynchus Hallowell, 1856
Rana halecina sphenocephala Cope, 1886
Rana virescens virescens Cope, 1889
Rana virescens sphenocephala — Cope, 1889
Rana sphenocephala — Stejneger & Barbour, 1917
Rana pipiens sphenocephala — Stejneger & Barbour, 1943
Rana utricularia utricularia — Pace, 1974
Rana utricularia sphenocephala — Pace, 1974
Rana (Rana) sphenocephala — Dubois, 1987
Rana (Pantherana) sphenocephala — Dubois, 1992
Rana sphenocephala utricularius — Collins, 1997
Rana sphenocephala sphenocephala — Collins, 1997
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) sphenocephalus sphenocephalus — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) sphenocephalus utricularia — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
Lithobates sphenocephalus — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
Lithobates (Lithobates) sphenocephalus sphenocephalus — Dubois, 2006
Lithobates (Lithobates) sphenocephalus utricularius — Dubois, 2006

Cope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 517.
Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 369.
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 sphenocephala (Least Concern) Downloaded on 2 July 2008. (as Rana sphenocephala)

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

English: Southern Leopard Frog