New County Records and Other Data Since 1996
Rana areolata Baird and Girard - Crawfish Frog
Since publication of Atlas of Amphibians in Tennessee (Redmond, W. H. and A. F. Scott. 1996. The Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. 94 pp.), several applicable taxonomic and nomenclatural changes and numerous reports of new county records have appeared in the literature. Following are comments, accompanied by cited references, on the taxonomic and nomenclatural changes, plus an updated distribution map and bibliographical information on new county records as they pertain to Rana areolata:
Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Changes
The genus Rana was split by Frost et al. (2006), and all eastern North American ranid species placed in the genus Lithobates. In the latest list of scientific and standard English names of the frogs of North America north of Mexico (Frost et al. 2017), the binomial for the Southern Leopard Frog is given as Lithobates areolatus.
Literature Cited:
Frost, D. R., T. Grant, J.Faivovich, R. H. Bain, A. Haas, C. F. B. Haddad, R. O. De SÁ, A. Channing, M. Wilkinson, S. C. Donnellan, C. J. Raxworthy, J. A. Campbell, B. L. Blotto, P. Moler, R. C. Drewes, R. A. Nussbaum, J. D. Lynch, D. M.. Green, W. C. Wheeler. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of natural History 297: 1-370.
Frost, D. R., E. M. Lemmon, R. W. McDiarmid, and J. R. Mendelson III. 2017. Anura: Frogs. IN B. I. Crother (ed.), Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North American North of Mexico, With Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding. SSAR Herpetological Circular 43:1-102.
Updated Distribution Map
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Literature Containing New County Records
Gibson County
Summers, E. A. 2010. Evaluating ecological restoration in Tennessee
hardwood bottomland forests. Master's
Thesis, University of Tennessee. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/753.
Henderson County
Harden, C. 2008. Geographic distribution: Lithobates areolata. Herpetol. Rev. 39:363.