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Associated observations

Photos / Sounds

What

Northern Leopard Frog (Lithobates pipiens)

Observer

flaxington

Date

August 2006

Place

Utah, US (Google, OSM)

Description

Rana pipiens. Modern studies reject Lithobates, returning the genus back to Rana.

Reference:
Zhi-Yong Yuan, Wei-Wei Zhou, Xin Chen, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Hong-Man Chen, Nian-Hong Jang-Liaw, Wen-Hao Chou, Nicholas J. Matzke, Koji Iizuka, Mi-Sook Min, Sergius L. Kuzmin, Ya-Ping Zhang, David C. Cannatella, David M. Hillis, Jing Che; Spatiotemporal Diversification of the True Frogs (Genus Rana): A Historical Framework for a Widely Studied Group of Model Organisms, Systematic Biology, Volume 65, Issue 5, 1 September 2016, Pages 824–842, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw055

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