Lithobates yavapaiensis

Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Lithobates
Species: Lithobates yavapaiensis

• Lithobates yavapaiensis Platz & Frost, 1984
  • Type locality: "Tule Creek (elev. 670 m), 34° 00´, 112° 16´, Yavapai Co[unty]., Arizona", USA.
  • Holotype: AMNH 117632.

• Rana yavapaiensis Platz & Frost, 1984
  • Rana (Rana) yavapaiensis — Dubois, 1987
  • Rana (Pantherana) yavapaiensis — Dubois, 1992
  • Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Pantherana, Scurrilirana) yavapaiensis — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005
  • Lithobates yavapaiensis — Frost et al. 2006
  • Lithobates (Lithobates) yavapaiensis — Dubois, 2006
  • Lithobates yavapaiensis — Frost et al. 2009
  • Lithobates yavapaiensis — Crother, 2012

• Platz, J. E., and J. S. Frost. 1984. Rana yavapaiensis, a new species of leopard frog (Rana pipiens complex). Copeia 1984: 940–948.
• Crother, B.I. (2012). Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding. 7th ed. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles: Herpetological Circular no. 39. 92pp. PDF
• Dubois, A. 1992. Notes sur la classification des Ranidae (Amphibiens anoures). Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 61(10): 305–352. PDF Reference page. 
• Dubois, A. 2006. New proposals for naming lower-ranked taxa within the frame of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Comptes Rendus. Biologies. Paris 329: 823–840. PDF
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M., & Wheeler W.C. 2006. The Amphibian Tree OF Life. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Number 297, 370 pp., 71 figures, 5 tables, 7 appendices PDF
• Frost, D. R., McDiamid, R. & J. R. Mendelson III. 2009. Response to the point of view of Gregory B. Pauly, David M. Hillis, and David C. Cannatella, by the Anuran subcommittee of the SSAR/HL/ASIH scientific and standard English names list. Herpetologica, 65(2), 2009, 136–153. PDF
• Hillis, D.M. & Wilcox, T.P. 2005. Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(2): 299–314. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.007 ; ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Hillis, D. M. (2007). Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 331–338. PDF fulltext
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Lithobates yavapaiensis  (Least Concern) Downloaded on 2 July 2008. (as Rana yavapaiensis)

This species was briefly transferred to Lithobates by Frost et al., 2006, but was transferred back to Rana by Hillis, 2007.