New County Records and Other Data Since 1996

Rana areolata Baird and Girard - Crawfish Frog

Since publication of Atlas of Amphibians in Tennessee (Redmond, W. H. and A. F. Scott. 1996. The Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. 94 pp.), several applicable taxonomic and nomenclatural changes and numerous reports of new county records have appeared in the literature. Comments, accompanied by cited references, on the taxonomic and nomenclatural changes plus bibliographical information on county records as they pertain to Rana areolata follow:

Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Changes

The genus Rana was split by Frost et al. (2006, The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297:1-370), and all eastern North American ranid species placed in the genus Lithobates.

New County Records

Henderson County

Harden, C.  2008.  Geographic distribution.  Lithobates areolata.  Herpetol. Rev. 39:363.