Lithobates virgatipes
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 virgatipes
Name
Lithobates virgatipes Cope, 1891
Type locality: "tributary of Great Egg Harbor . . . . Mare Run", above May's Landing, Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA.
Syntypes: ANSP 10759-64.
Synonyms
Rana virgatipes Cope, 1891
Rana (Rana) virgatipes — Dubois, 1987
Rana (Aquarana) virgatipes — Dubois, 1992
Rana (Novirana, Aquarana) virgatipes — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
Lithobates virgatipes — Frost et al. 2006
Lithobates (Aquarana) virgatipes — Dubois, 2006
Lithobates virgatipes — Frost et al. 2009
Lithobates virgatipes — Crother, 2012
References
Cope, E. D. 1891. A new species of frog from New Jersey. American Naturalist 25: 1017–1019.
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: 305–352. 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
Frost, D. R., McDiamid, R. & J. R. Mendelson III. 2009. Response to the point of view of Gregory B. Pauly, David M. Hillis, and David C. Cannatella, by the Anuran subcommittee of the SSAR/HL/ASIH scientific and standard English names list. Herpetologica, 65(2), 2009, 136–153. 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 virgatipes (Least Concern) Downloaded on 2 July 2008. (as Rana virgatipes)
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: Carpenter Frog
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