Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Anura
Subordo: Neobatrachia
Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Rana
Species: Rana areolata
Subspecies: R. a. areolata - R. a. circulosa
Name
Rana areolata Baird & Girard, 1852
Type locality: "Indianola, [Calhoun County, Texas] and [apparently in error] . . . on the Rio San Pedro of the Gila [Arizona]", USA.
Lectotype: USNM 3304.
Synonyms
* Rana areolata Baird & Girard, 1852
* Rana areolata areolata — Cope, 1875
* Rana circulosa Rice & Davis, 1878
* Rana areolata circulosa — Davis & Rice, 1883
* Rana octoplicata Werner, 1893
* Rana virescens areolata — Cole & Barbour, 1906
* Rana areolata areolata — Neill, 1957
* Rana areolata circulosa — Neill, 1957
* Rana (Rana) areolata — Dubois, 1987
* Rana (Pantherana) areolata — Dubois, 1992
* Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Nenirana) areolata — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
* Lithobates areolatus — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
* Lithobates (Lithobates) areolatus — Dubois, 2006
References
* Baird and Girard, 1852, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 173.
* 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. PDF fulltext
* 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 link: Rana areolata (Unknown category) Downloaded on 01 July 2008.
Vernacular names
Internationalization
English: Crawfish Frog
