Lithobates catesbeianus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Fundación AndígenA, Apartado Postal 210, Mérida, VENEZUELA & Current address: Doc Frog Expeditions, Uvita de Osa, COSTA RICA
- 2. Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Apartado Postal 1930, Caracas 1010 - A, VENEZUELA & Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Río Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Porto Alegre, RS 90619 - 900, BRAZIL
- 3. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, apartado 20632, Caracas 1020, VENEZUELA
Description
Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw 1802)
Holotype: Illustrated by Shaw (1802: 106, plate 33).
Type locality: “ Many parts of North America… Carolina, Virginia.” Attempts to restrict type locality are not accepted by Fouquette and Dubois (2014).
Distribution: Southern Canada, eastern North America, and northern Mexico. Introduced in numerous countries of Americas (southern and western Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile) several Caribbean islands (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Hispaniola), Europe (Netherlands, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Greece), and Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Korea, and Taiwan). In Venezuela, known introduced population in the surroundings of La Carbonera, Mérida State.
Remarks: Since its introduction, species was the subject of a population control program by ULA (Universidad de los Andes), IVIC (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas), and MARN (Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales), without continuation or much success.
Selected references: Barrio-Amorós (2001c); Hanselmann et al. (2004); Lampo et al. (2004); Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BA31FFE7FFACFF986D36FA1CFFB9FFDF (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/4608879FFFC2FFF66E4FF9B1FC42F919 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/232129431 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/298067/taxon/4608879FFFC2FFF66E4FF9B1FC42F919.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Shaw
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Ranidae
- Genus
- Lithobates
- Species
- catesbeianus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw, 1802) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019
References
- Fouquette Jr MJ, Dubois A. 2014. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Seventh Edition. Volume 1. Amphibians. XLibris, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. 586 p.
- Barrio-Amoros CL. 2001 c. State of knowledge on the declination of amphibians in Venezuela. Froglog 47: 2 - 4.
- Hanselmann R, Rodriguez A, Lampo M, Fajardo- Ramos L, Aguirre AA, Kilpatrick AM, Rodriguez JP, Daszak P. 2004. Presence of an emerging pathogen of amphibians in introduced bullfrogs Rana catesbeiana in Venezuela. Biological Conservation 120: 115 - 119.
- Lampo M, Chacon A, Diaz de Pascual A. 2004. Muge y no es Vaca. La rana toro, un invasor letal. EsCiencia 10: 14 - 15.