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Rana chiricahuensis Platz and Mecham, 1979
Chiricahua Leopard Frog
Subgenus: Pantherana
family: Ranidae
genus: Rana
 
Taxonomic Notes: In 2011 Hekkala, Saumure, Jaeger, Herrmann, Sredl, Bradford, Drabeck and Blum, in an open access article published in Conservation Genetics (DOI 10.1007/s10592-011-0229-6), showed that Rana chiricahuensis, as treated in the following species account, includes two genetically distinct lineages. They were successful in obtaining sufficient genetic information from specimens of R. fisheri preserved in 1913 in ethanol and stored at the California Academy of Sciences to determine that it is a member of one of the two lineages, which is extant along the Mogollon Rim and White Mtns of central and eastern Arizona and extreme west-central New Mexico. Rana fisheri has long been considered to be extinct, but with this discovery the range of R. fisheri is extended from southern Nevada to central and eastern Arizona and adjacent New Mexico. R. chiricahuensis is accordingly restricted to the more southern and eastern portions of its former range. This species was placed in the genus Lithobates by Frost et al. (2006). However, Yuan et al. (2016, Systematic Biology, doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syw055) showed that this action created problems of paraphyly in other genera. Yuan et al. (2016) recognized subgenera within Rana for the major traditional species groups, with Lithobates used as the subgenus for the Rana palmipes group. AmphibiaWeb recommends the optional use of these subgenera to refer to these major species groups, with names written as Rana (Aquarana) catesbeiana, for example.

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Locality Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
County Santa Cruz County
State Arizona
Country USA
Date Recorded 2010-04-23
Call Type Advertisement calls
Temperature (F/C) 49.5° F
Temperature Type Air
Background
Notes Recorded at approximately 7:30 PM; air temperature was 49.5 degrees Fahrenheit, winds were 2 mph, humidity was 50%, clouds were scattered, occasionally parting and revealing a bright moon; recordings were made using a Telinga Pro 6 Stereo DAT parabolic microphone system to a Marantz PMD 670 recorder with a Sound Devices MixPre preamp; sampling rate was 44.1 kHz/24 bits; frog calls were very sparse on this evening; unidentified squirrel or bird in the background
Recorded By Jeff Rice
Source http://www.westernsoundscape.org/
Copyright Audio file copyright 2010, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, http://www.westernsoundscape.org/. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Date Entered 2010-05-05

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