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Rana bedriagae Camerano 1882

Peter Beerli*

Table of Contents

Description
Distribution
Voice
Synonyms
References

Description

A member of the water frog group with green to brown backs, this taxon is very similar to Rana ridibunda. They are distinct mostly in frequency differences of electrophoretic alleles (e.g a-GDH:b (a slow allele) is predominant compared to the a (a fast allele) Rana ridibunda) and voice parameters.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is not well known, in the west it occupies whole Anatolia, probably parts of Thracia (Greece), the frogs from El-Fayum (near Cairo) belongs to this taxon, but their extension to the South and East are unknown.

Voice

The following recordings a short sequences of longer recordings. These files are size reduced (MULAW 8-bit encoded) from 16-bit encoded sound files. [A single call , Several calls ]

Synonyms

Valid name: Rana (Pelophylax) bedriagae Camerano 1882

Synonyms: Rana esculenta var. bedriagae Camerano 1882, Rana ridibunda caralitana Arikan 1988, Rana levantina Schneider, Sinsch, and Nevo 1993.

References

Beerli, P. 1994. Genetic isolation and calibration of an average protein clock in 
     western Palearctic water frogs of the Aegean region. Dissertation Universität 
     Zürich 1994. [Summary]
Camerano, L. 1882. Recherches sur les variations de la Rana esculenta et du 
     Bufo viridis dans le bassin del la Méditerranée. C. r. Soc. fr. Av. 
     Sci. 10: 680-692.
Dubois, A. 1992. Note sur la classification des Ranidae (Amphibiens Anoures). 
     Bulletin mensuel de la société linnéenne de Lyon 61(10): 305-352.
Schneider, H. and T.S. Sofianidou. 1985. The mating call of Rana ridibunda 
     (Amphibia, Anura) in northern Greece as compared with those of Yugoslavian and 
     Israeli populations: proposal of a new subspecies. 
     Zoologischer Anzeiger 214(5/6): 309-319.
Schneider, H., U. Sinsch, and E. Nevo. 1993. The lake frog in  Israel represent 
     a new species. Zoologischer Anzeiger 1/2: 97 -- 106.

Title Illustration

Rana bedriagae from the Center of Anatolia [locality Beyshehir].

Photographs copyright © 1995, Peter Beerli.

About the map

The map is a transverse Mercator projection and was created with GMT 3.0 ( Wessel and Smith, 1995) and postprocessed in Virtuoso on a NeXT, and then co nverted from eps to gif.
[If you need maps, take a look at GMT 3.0 and create them yourself]

About this page

Peter Beerli

e-mail: beerli@scs.fsu.edu.
Genetics 357360
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195-7360
USA


Page copyright © 1995 Peter Beerli
Last modified 20 December 1995

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