From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Proposed amphib name changes Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:53:42 -0800 CA/NV Amphibian Folks: NEWS RELEASE The Center for North American Herpetology Lawrence, Kansas http://www.cnah.org 20 March 2006 CHANGES TO THE TAXONOMY OF NORTH AMERICAN AMPHIBIANS In their recent publication, Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, De Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler (2006. The Amphibian Tree of Life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1-370) recommended the following: 1) The Family Dicamptodontidae (Tihen, 1958) is synonymized with the Family Ambystomatidae (Gray, 1850). 2) The genus Haideotriton Carr, 1939, is synonymized with the genus Eurycea Rafinesque, 1822, resulting in the new combination Eurycea wallacei (Carr, 1939). 3) The Family Ascaphidae (Fejérváry, 1923) is synonymized with the Family Leiopelmatidae (Mivart, 1869). 4) As part of the partitioning of the genus Eleutherodactylus, the genus Syrrhophus (Cope, 1878) is resurrected and, along with the genus Craugaster (Cope, 1862), is placed in the Family Brachycephalidae (Günther, 1858), as follows (specific taxa match those currently contained in the CNAH checklist): Craugaster augusti (Dùges, 1879) Craugaster augusti cactorum (Taylor, 1938) Craugaster augusti latrans (Cope, 1880) Syrrhophus cystignathoides (Cope, 1877) Syrrhophus cystignathoides campi (Stejneger, 1914) Syrrhophus guttilatus (Cope, 1879) Syrrhophus marnockii (Cope, 1878) 5) Partitioning of the genus Bufo worldwide results in the recognition of three genera of these anurans in North America and Canada, as follows (specific taxa match those currently contained in the CNAH checklist): Anaxyrus Tschudi, 1845 Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) Anaxyrus americanus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) Anaxyrus americanus charlesmithi (Bragg, 1954 ) Anaxyrus baxteri (Porter, 1968) Anaxyrus boreas (Baird and Girard, 1852) Anaxyrus boreas boreas (Baird and Girard, 1852) Anaxyrus boreas halophilus (Baird and Girard, 1853) Anaxyrus californicus (Camp, 1915) Anaxyrus canorus (Camp, 1916) Anaxyrus cognatus (Say in James, 1823) Anaxyrus debilis (Girard, 1854) Anaxyrus debilis debilis (Girard, 1854) Anaxyrus debilis insidior (Girard, 1854) Anaxyrus exsul (Myers, 1942) Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882) Anaxyrus hemiophrys (Cope, 1886) Anaxyrus houstonensis (Sanders, 1953) Anaxyrus microscaphus (Cope, 1866) Anaxyrus nelsoni (Stejneger, 1893) Anaxyrus punctatus (Baird and Girard, 1852) Anaxyrus quercicus (Holbrook, 1840) Anaxyrus retiformis (Sanders and Smith, 1951) Anaxyrus speciosus (Girard, 1854) Anaxyrus terrestris (Bonnaterre, 1789) Anaxyrus woodhousii (Girard, 1854) Anaxyrus woodhousii australis (Shannon and Lowe, 1955) Anaxyrus woodhousii velatus (Bragg and Sanders, 1951) Anaxyrus woodhousii woodhousii (Girard, 1854) Chaunus Wagler, 1828 Chaunus marinus (Linnaeus, 1758) Cranopsis Cope, 1875 Cranopsis alvaria (Girard in Baird, 1849) Cranopsis nebulifer (Girard, 1854) 6) Partitioning of the genus Rana worldwide results in the recognition of two genera of these frogs in North America and Canada, as follows (specific taxa match those currently contained in the CNAH checklist): Lithobates Fitzinger, 1843 Lithobates areolatus (Baird and Girard, 1852) Lithobates areolatus areolatus (Baird and Girard, 1852) Lithobates areolatus circulosus (Rice and Davies, 1878) Lithobates berlandieri (Baird, 1859) Lithobates blairi (Mecham, Littlejohn, Oldham, Brown & Brown, 1973) Lithobates capito (LeConte, 1855) Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw, 1802) Lithobates chiricahuensis (Platz & Mecham, 1979) Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801) Lithobates clamitans clamitans (Latreille, 1801) Lithobates clamitans melanotus (Rafinesque, 1820) Lithobates grylio (Stejneger, 1901) Lithobates heckscheri (Wright, 1924) Lithobates okaloosae (Moler, 1985) Lithobates onca (Cope, 1875) Lithobates palustris (LeConte, 1825) Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782) Lithobates septentrionalis (Baird, 1854) Lithobates sevosus (Goin & Netting, 1940) Lithobates sphenocephalus (Cope, 1886) Lithobates sphenocephalus sphenocephalus (Cope, 1886) Lithobates sphenocephalus utricularius (Harlan, 1825) Lithobates subaquavocalis (Platz, 1993) Lithobates sylvaticus (LeConte, 1825) Lithobates tarahumarae (Boulenger, 1917) Lithobates virgatipes (Cope, 1891) Lithobates yavapaiensis (Platz & Frost, 1984) Rana Linnaeus, 1758 Rana aurora Baird & Girard, 1852 Rana boylii Baird, 1854 Rana cascadae Slater, 1939 Rana draytonii Baird & Girard, 1852 Rana luteiventris Thompson, 1913 Rana muscosa Camp, 1917 Rana pretiosa Baird & Girard, 1853 ***** CNAH Note: The CNAH common and scientific names list, as displayed on the CNAH web site, has adopt the familial changes proposed in Frost et al. (2006). The generic changes are logged in the web site commentary (note the red icon to the right of a name -- it denotes that commentary since 2002 is present for that taxon) and will be adopted (or not, based on peer scrutiny) in the sixth edition of "Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians" (Collins & Taggart, in preparation). ******************************************************** David F. Bradford, Ph.D., Research Ecologist U.S. EPA, ORD, Landscape Ecology Branch P.O. Box 93478, Las Vegas, NV 89193-3478 (or 944 E. Harmon Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89119) Tel: 702-798-2681; FAX: 702-798-2208 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************************
