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RANA PALMIPES Spix 



1824. Rana palmipes Spix, Animalia nova, sive species novae testudinum et 

 ranarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam, etc., p. 5, pi. 5, fig. 1. — Boulenger, 

 1882, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the collection of 

 the British Museum, 2d edit., p. 48. — Gunther, 1900, Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana, Reptilia and Batrachia, p. 202, Feb. — Noble, 1918, Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 38, art. 10, p. 316, pi. 14.— Boulenger, 1920, Proc. 

 Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 55, no. 9, p. 473, Aug. — Miranda-Ribeiro, 

 1926, Archiv. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, vol. 27, p. 165, fig. 92.— Lutz, 1927, 

 Mem. Inst. Oswaldo-Cruz, vol. 20, fasc. 1, pp. 46, 62, pi. 9. 



1859. Rana affinis Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 403, 

 May (Caracas, Venezuela). — Cope, 1866, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel- 

 phia, vol. 18, p. 130. — Boulenger, 1919, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 

 vol. 3, no. 16, p. 416. 



1859. Ranula gollmerii Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 

 402, May (Caracas, Venezuela). 



1863. Rana clamata var. guianensis Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berlin, p. 412. 



1867. Pohlia palmipes Steindachner, Reise der Oesterreichischen Fregatte 

 Novara, Zoologischer theil, vol. 1, Amphibien, p. 15, pi. 1, figs. 5-8. 



1874. Ranula brevipalmata Cope, 1874, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 131 

 (Nauta, Peru). [Nee Rana brevipalmata Peters, 1871, Monatsber. k. 

 preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 646.] 



1874. Ranula nigrilatus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 131 (Nauta, 

 Peru). 



1877. Rana vaillanti Brocchi, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 1, no. 4, p. 176 

 (Mullins River, near Belize, British Honduras). — Brocchi, 1882, Mission 

 scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Am6rique Centrale, recherches zoologiques, 

 pt. 3, sect. 2, p. 11, pi. 2, figs. 1-lc. 



1882. Rana copii Boulenger, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata 

 in the collection of the British Museum, 2d edit., p. 49. [Substitute name 

 for Rana brevipalmata Cope, preoccupied.] 



1900. Rana bonaccana Gunther, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Reptilia and 

 Batrachia, p. 201, pi. 60, fig. B, Feb. (Bonacca Island, off coast of British 

 Honduras). 



1900. Rana melanosoma Gunther, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Reptilia and 

 Batrachia, p. 203, pi. 63, fig. B, Feb. (Duenas, Guatemala, and Hacienda 

 Rosa de Jericho; altitude, 3,250 feet, Nicaragua). 



1913. Rana brevipalmata rhoadsi Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 p. 166, pi. 9 (Bucay, Province of Guayas, Ecuador). 



Type locality. — Amazon River, Brazil. 



Range. — From Vera Cruz (Jalapa) and Morelos (Cuernavaca) south- 

 ward through Oaxaca and Chiapas to the Mexican border, and thence 

 south through Central America and South America to northern Peru 

 (Nauta, Maranon River), western Brazil (Matto Grosso or Villa Bella), 

 and to Pernambuco on the Atlantic coast of Brazil. 



Remarks. — Boulenger's monograph on the American frogs of the 

 genus Rana has been followed in compiling the synonymy of Rana 

 palmipes because sufficient material from critical areas in Central and 

 South America is not now available in American institutions to permit 

 a review of the forms that are obviously closely related or identical 



