Taxonavigation

Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Lithobates
Species: Lithobates clamitans
Subspecies: L. c. clamitans – L. c. melanota

Name

• Lithobates clamitans Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801
  • Type locality: "la Caroline, près de Charlestown [= Charleston]", South Carolina, USA.
  • Holotype: MNHNP 1397.

References

• 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

• 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 Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• Hillis, D. M. (2007). Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 331–338. PDF fulltext
• Gray, E.P., Nunziata, S., Snodgrass, J.W., Ownby, D.R. & Havel, J.E. 2010: Predation on Green Frog Eggs (Rana clamitans) by Ostracoda. Copeia, 2010 (3) 452–456. DOI: 10.1643/CH-09-074
• Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 (An. X), Hist. Nat. Rept., 2: 157.
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Lithobates clamitans  (Least Concern) Downloaded on 01 July 2008. (as Rana clamitans)

Vernacular names