Rana luteiventris
Thompson, 1913
RAH-nah — lew-tee-VEN-tris
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Nevada Spotted Frog (Rana pretiosa luteiventris: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Great Basin Spotted Frog (Rana pretiosa luteiventris: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1913
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Thompson, H. B. Description of a new subspecies of Rana pretiosa from Nevada. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 26:53–55
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1958
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Turner, Frederick B. Life-history of the western spotted frog in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Herpetologica 14:96-100
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1966
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Dumas, Philip C. Studies of the Rana species complex in the Pacific Northwest. Copeia 1966(1):60-74
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1985
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Hillis, David M. Evolutionary genetics and systematics of New World frogs of the genus Rana: An analysis of ribosomal DNA, allozymes, and morphology. Dissertation. University of Kansas, Lawrence. pp.
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1997
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Green, David M., Hinrich Kaiser, Timothy F. Sharbel, Jennifer Kearsley, and Kelly R. McAllister. Cryptic species of spotted frogs, Rana pretiosa complex, in Western North America. Copeia 1997(1):1-8
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2009
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Greene, Allison E. and W. Chris Funk. Sexual selection on morphology in an explosive breeding amphibian, the Columbia Spotted Frog (Rana luteiventris) . Journal of Herpetology 43(2):244-251
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