Northern Red-legged Frog
Rana aurora  Baird & Girard, 1852
Taxonomic Comments:
  • Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, De Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler (2006. The Amphibian Tree of Life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1-370) retained this frog in the genus Rana.
  • CNAH has adopted the standard common name, Northern Red-legged Frog, for this taxon, in order to distinguish it from Rana draytonii.

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