Lithobates fisheri Stejneger, 1893
Las Vegas leopard frog, Vegas Valley leopard frog
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Rana fisheri Stejneger, 1893; Rana chiricahuensis (in part); Lithobates chiricahuensis (in part); Rana pipiens fisheri Stejneger, 1893
Conservation Status
Last record: 13 January 1942
Rediscovered in 2011
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Nevada, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Stejneger, L. (1893). Annotated list of the reptiles and batrachians collected by the Death Valley Expedition in 1891, with descriptions of new species. North American Fauna [1893]: 159-228.
Other references:
Behler, J.L. and King, F.W. 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians. New York.
Blackburn, L., Nanjappa, P. and Lannoo, M.J. 2001. An Atlas of the Distribution of U.S. Amphibians. Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Frost, D.R. 1985. Amphibian Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Allen Press and the Association of Systematic Collections, Lawrence, Kansas.
Hekkala, Evon R.; Saumure, Raymond A.; Jaeger, Jef R.; Herrmann, Hans-Werner; Sredl, Michael J.; Bradford, David F.; Drabeck, Danielle; Blum, Michael J. (2011). Resurrecting an extinct species: Archival DNA, taxonomy, and conservation of the Vegas Valley leopard frog. Conservation Genetics 12(5): 1379-1385. [Abstract]
Jennings, M.R. 1988. Rana onca Cope, relict leopard frog. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles: 1-2.
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Wright, A. H. and Wright, A. A. (1949). Handbook of frogs and toads of the United States and Canada. Comstock Publishing Company, Inc, Ithaca, New York, USA.