Lithobates catesbeianus ( Shaw 1802 )

Diesmos, Arvin C., Watters, Jessa L., Huron, Nicholas A., Davis, Drew R., Alcala, Angel C., Crombie, Ronald I., Afuang, Leticia E., Gee-Das, Genevieve, Sison, Rogelio V., Sanguila, Marites B., Penrod, Michelle L., Labonte, Marie J., Davey, Conner S., Leone, E. Austin, Diesmos, Mae L., Sy, Emerson Y., Welton, Luke J., Brown, Rafe M. & Siler, Cameron D., 2015, Amphibians of the Philippines, Part I: Checklist of the Species, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 62 (20), pp. 457-539 : 478

Lithobates catesbeianus ( Shaw 1802)

Rana catesbeiana Shaw, 1802 ; Boulenger 1920; Dubois 1987 “1986”

Rana pipiens Daudin 1802

Rana taurina Cuvier 1817

Rana mugiens Merrem, 1820

Rana scapularis Harlan, 1826

Rana conspersa Le Conte 1855

Rana catesbyana Cope 1889 ; Werner 1909

Rana (Rana) catesbeiana, Boulenger, 1920

Rana nantaiwuensis Hsü 1930

Rana mugicus Angel 1947

Rana (Aquarana) catesbeiana, Dubois, 1992 ; Hillis 2007

Rana ( Novirana , Aquarana) catesbeiana, Hillis and Wilcox 2005

Lithobates catesbeianus, Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006

Lithobates (Aquarana) catesbeianus, Dubois 2006

Type locality and holotype specimen: North America (Status and whereabouts of holotype unknown; not traced) .

Philippine distribution: Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Panay (Introduced; Diesmos et al. 2006).

Figures 22 and 39 .

Figures

FIGURE 22. Geographic range maps for members of the family Ranidae (Lithobates catesbeianus, Pulchrana grandocula, P. mangyanum, and P. melanomenta). Points represent museum vouchered specimens with georeferenced locality information overlaid on a topographic map of the Philippines.

FIGURE 39. Photographs in life of A) Lithobates catesbeianus (Ranidae), B) Pulchrana granocula (Ranidae), C) Pulchrana mangyanum (Ranidae), D) Pulchrana moellendorffi (Ranidae), E) Pulchrana similis (Ranidae), F) Sanguirana albotuberculata (Ranidae), G) Sanguirana aurantipunctata (Ranidae), and H) Sanguirana everetti (Ranidae). Photographs copyright Rafe M. Brown (D, G), Janalee P. Caldwell (A), and Cameron D. Siler (B, C, E, F, H).