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Rana vesicaria Fermin 1765

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Description

Rana vesicaria Fermin, 1765.

The species is included among the Anura incertae sedis (Frost 2010), but the presence of paired vocal sacs (“... Cette Grenouille a à chaque côté de la machoire inférieure, une Vessie, qui dans les grandes chaleurs sont remplies d’air ...”) and its origin (“ Hollande Equinoxiale”, i.e., Surinam), leads us to consider it as a synonym of Trachycephalus typhonius.

Although Fermin’s book was included in the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Works by Opinion 660 (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1963), only the names of seven species of turtles were formally included in the list of rejected taxa. The rejection of the book suppress all the contained species, and our comment on Rana vesicaria is only intended to tie a loose end in the nomenclature of Neotropical amphibians.

Notes

Published as part of Sá, De, 2010, The identity of the crackling, luminescent frog of Suriname (Rana typhonia Linnaeus, 1758) (Amphibia, Anura), pp. 17-30 in Zootaxa 2671 on page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276466

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Fermin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Ranidae
Genus
Rana
Species
vesicaria
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rana vesicaria Fermin, 1765 sec. Sá, 2010

References

  • Fermin, P. (1765) Histoire naturelle de la Hollande Equinoxiale: Ou description des animaux, plantes, fruits, et autres curiosites naturelles, qui se trouvent Dans la Colonie de Surinam; avec leurs noms differents, tant Francois, que Latins, Hollandais, Indiens Negre-Anglois. Amsterdam: M. Magerus.
  • Frost, D. R. (2010) Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.4 (June, 2010). Electronic Database accessible at http: // research. amnh. org / vz / herpetology / amphibia /. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.