Rana grylio

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 grylio

Name

Rana grylio Stejneger, 1901

Type locality: "Bay St. Louis, [Hancock County,] Mississippi", USA.

Holotype: USNM 27443.

Synonyms

* Rana grylio Stejneger, 1901
* Rana (Rana) grylio — Dubois, 1987
* Rana (Aquarana) grylio — Dubois, 1992
* Rana (Novirana, Aquarana) grylio — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
* Lithobates grylio — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
* Lithobates (Aquarana) grylio — Dubois, 2006

References

* Stejneger, 1901, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 212.
* 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 grylio (Least Concern) Downloaded on 01 July 2008. (as Rana grylio)

Vernacular names
Internationalization
English: Pig Frog