Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Anura
Subordo: Neobatrachia
Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Rana
Species: Rana berlandieri
Name
Rana berlandieri Baird, 1859
Type locality: "Brownsville, Tex.", USA.
Lectotype: USNM 131513.
Synonyms
* Rana berlandieri Baird, 1859
* Rana halecina berlandieri — Cope, 1875
* Rana halecina austricola Cope, 1886
* Rana virescens austricola — Cope, 1889
* Rana virescens var. austricola — Ives, 1891
* Rana austricola — Ruthven, 1912
* Rana halecina var. austricola — Boulenger, 1919
* Rana pipiens berlandieri — Schmidt, 1941
* Rana pipiens austricola — Smith, 1947
* Rana berlandieri berlandieri — Sanders, 1973
* Rana (Rana) berlandieri — Dubois, 1987
* Rana (Pantherana) berlandieri — Dubois, 1992
* Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) berlandieri — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
* Lithobates berlandieri — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
* Lithobates (Lithobates) berlandieri — Dubois, 2006
References
* Baird, 1859, Rep. U.S-Mex. Bound. Surv., 2(Pt. 2-Rept.): 27.
* Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 369.
* Hillis, D.M. & Wilcox, T.P. (2005): Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(2): 299–314. PDF fulltext
* Hillis, D. M. (2007) Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 331–338. PDF fulltext
* 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN link: Rana berlandieri (Least Concern) Downloaded on 01 July 2008. (as Rana berlandieri)
Vernacular names
Internationalization
English: Rio Grande Leopard Frog
