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 yavapaiensis
Name
Rana yavapaiensis Platz & Frost, 1984
Type locality: "Tule Creek (elev. 670 m), 34° 00´, 112° 16´, Yavapai Co[unty]., Arizona", USA.
Holotype: AMNH 117632.
Synonyms
* Rana yavapaiensis Platz & Frost, 1984
* Rana (Rana) yavapaiensis — Dubois, 1987
* Rana (Pantherana) yavapaiensis — Dubois, 1992
* Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) yavapaiensis — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
* Lithobates yavapaiensis — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
* Lithobates (Lithobates) yavapaiensis — Dubois, 2006
References
* Platz and Frost, 1984, Copeia, 1984: 940.
* 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 yavapaiensis (Least Concern) Downloaded on 02 July 2008. (as Rana yavapaiensis)
Note
This species was briefly transferred to Lithobates by Frost et al., 2006, but was transferred back to Rana by Hillis, 2007.
Vernacular names
Internationalization
English: Lowland Leopard Frog
