Rana vaillanti

Taxobox
name = Vaillant's Frog


status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
familia = Ranidae
genus = "Rana"
species = "R. vaillanti"
binomial = "Rana vaillanti"
binomial_authority = Brocchi, 1877
synonyms = Rana bonaccana Günther, 1900 "Lithobates vaillanti"

Vaillant's Frog, "Rana vaillanti", is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, ponds, and canals and ditches.

References

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* (2005): Phylogeny of the New World true frogs ("Rana"). "Mol. Phylogenet. Evol." 34(2): 299–314. doi|10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.007 [http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/215.pdf PDF fulltext] .
* (2007) Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life. "Mol. Phylogenet. Evol." 42: 331–338.
* Santos-Barrera, G., Solís, F., Ibáñez, R., Chaves, G., Wilson, L.D., Castro, F., Coloma, L.A., Ron, S., Acosta-Galvis, A. & Morales, M. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/58744/all Rana vaillanti] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.] Downloaded on 23 July 2007.