Lithobates vaillanti

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 vaillanti

Name

Lithobates vaillanti Brocchi, 1877
- Type locality: "sur les bords de la rivière de Mullins, près de Belize ([British] Honduras)".
- Holotype: MNHNP 6328.

Synonyms

Rana vaillanti Brocchi, 1877
- Rana bonaccana Günther, 1900
- Rana brevipalmata rhoadsi Fowler, 1913
- Rana palmipes hoffmanni Müller, 1924
- Rana (Rana) vaillanti — Dubois, 1987
- Rana (Lithobates) vaillanti — Dubois, 1992
- Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Ranula, Lithobates) vailanti — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
- Lithobates vaillanti — Frost et al. 2006
- Lithobates (Lithobates) vaillanti — Dubois, 2006
- Lithobates vaillanti — Crother, 2012

References

Brocchi, P. 1877. Sur quelques batraciens raniformes et bufoniformes de l’Amérique Centrale. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. Series 7, 1: 175–197.
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.
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
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 vaillanti (Least Concern) Downloaded on 2 July 2008. (as Rana vaillanti)

Note:

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

Vernacular names

English: Vaillant's Frog