Lithobates brownorum

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Lithobates brownorum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Lithobates
Species:
L. brownorum
Binomial name
Lithobates brownorum
(Sanders, 1973)
Synonyms [2]
  • Rana berlandieri brownorumSanders, 1973 [3]

Lithobates brownorum, [2] [4] commonly known as Browns' leopard frog, [1] is a species of frog native to southern Veracruz and northeastern Oaxaca east through the Yucatan Peninsula and the uplands of Chiapas in southern Mexico through Guatemala and Honduras to Nicaragua. Its separateness from Lithobates berlandieri has been questioned but molecular data now supports the conclusion that it is a separate species. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Lithobates brownorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2022: e.T201744A2714045. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T201744A2714045.en . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Lithobates brownorum (Sanders, 1973)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  3. Sanders, Ottys (1973). "A new leopard frog (Rana berlandieri brownorum) from Southern Mexico". Journal of Herpetology. 7 (2): 87–92. doi:10.2307/1563205. JSTOR   1563205.
  4. "Lithobates brownorum". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.