Pelophylax kurtmuelleri

Pelophylax kurtmuelleri

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 Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Pelophylax
Species: Pelophylax kurtmuelleri

Name

Pelophylax kurtmuelleri (Gayda, 1940)

• Holotype: ZMB, adult ♂, collected by Kurt Müller in 1938.
• Type locality: “Arsen presso Petrelli [=Erzen river near Petrela]”, Albania.

Combinations

• Rana ridibunda kurt-mülleri Gayda, 1940: 264 [original combination]
• Rana (Pelophylax) kurtmuelleri — Dubois & Ohler, 1996: 179 [subsequent combination]
• Hylarana kurtmuelleri — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho & Somorjai, 2005: 237 [subsequent combination, by implication]
• Pelophylax kurtmuelleri — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006: 369 [subsequent combination]
• Pelophylax ridibundus kurtmuelleri — Sindaco & Razzetti, 2021: 40 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Rana balcanica Schneider & Sinsch, 1992: 310
  • Holotype: Not designated; holotype subsequently noted as ZFMK 52825, adult ♂, collected by T.S. Sofianidou on 11 April 1991, by Schneider, Sinsch & Sofianidou (1993: 60).
  • Type locality: “includes Greece except for Thrace . . . has also been found at Lake Scutari in Yugoslavia [on Montenegro–Albanian border]”, designated as “ca. 2km west of Gefyra (near Thessaloniki, Macedonia) in a pond directly on the eastern bank of the Axios River”, Greece, by Schneider, Sinsch & Sofianidou (1993: 60).

References

Primary references

• Gayda, H. 1940. Su alcuni anfibi e rettili dell’Albania esistenti nel Museo zoologico di Berlino. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 79(4): 263–272. BHL Reference page. 
• Schneider, H. & Sinsch, U. 1992. Mating call variation in lake frogs referred to as Rana ridibunda Pallas, 1771. Taxonomic implications. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 30(4): 297–315. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.1992.tb00179.x Reference page. 
• Schneider, H., Sinsch, U. & Sofianidou, T.S. 1993. The water frogs of Greece: Bioacoustic evidence for a new species. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 31(1): 47–63. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.1993.tb00178.x 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.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 

Links

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2022. IUCN: Pelophylax kurtmuelleri  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T58637A89704186. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T58637A89704186.en. Accessed on 21 September 2022.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Balkan-Wasserfrosch
English: Balkan Water Frog

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