New County Records and Other Data Since 1996

Rana sylvatica Le Conte - Wood 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 sylvatica 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

Corser, J. D.  2008.  The Cumberland Plateau disjunct paradox and the biogeography and conservation of pond-breeding amphibians.  American Midland Naturalist 159:498-503.

Samoray, S. T. and K. J. Regester. 2001. Geographic distribution. Rana sylvatica. Herpetol. Rev. 32: 190-191.

          Ennen, J. and N. Parker.  2004.  Geographic distribution. Rana sylvatica.  Herpetol. Rev. 35:407.

Jackson County

Nanjappa, P. and L. Leininger. 2000. Geographic distribution. Rana sylvatica. Herpetol. Rev. 31:51.

Marion County 

Corser, J. D.  2008.  The Cumberland Plateau disjunct paradox and the biogeography and conservation of pond-breeding amphibians.  American Midland Naturalist 159:498-503.

Campbell, T. S. 2002. New records for amphibians in the Big South Fork region of Tennessee. Herpetol. Rev. 33:230-231.

Union County 

Thurman, W. M., J. R. Ennen, and J. M. Davenport.  2006.  Geographic distribution.  Rana sylvatica.  Herpetol. Rev. 37:490.

Van Buren County 

Brown, M. L.  2009.  Geographic distribution.  Lithobates sylvaticus.  Herpetol. Rev. 40:362.