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Rana epeirotica Schneider, Sofianidou, Kyriakoupoulou-Slavounou 1984

Peter Beerli*

Table of Contents

Description
Distribution
Voice
Synonyms
References

Description

Mid sized frogs (females 83±7.5 mm; males 74.4±7.4 mm) with mostly greenish brown backs with many black spots, the flanks are yellowish. Morphological features are distinct from other water frog species, but are, as in all water frog species very variable (cf. Schneider et al. 1984). In biochemical characters (protein electrophoresis) the distinction from other species is easy: private alleles so far known are ALB:e, EST-5:a, MPI:b, 6PGDH:g, and sAAT:k (Hotz and Uzzell 1982, Beerli 1994).

Distribution

The distribution of this species is restricted to the northwest of Greece and the southern parts of Albania. The presence of this species on the island Zakynthos has to be confirmed. Rana epeirotica lives in sympatry with Rana ridibunda.

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) epeirotica Schneider, Sofianidou, and Kyriakopoulou 1984

Synonyms: -

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]
Hotz, H. and T. Uzzell. 1982. Biochemically detected sympatry of 
       two water frog species: two different cases in the Adriatic Balkans 
       (Amphibia, Ranidae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 
       Sciences of Philadelphia 134: 50-79.
Schneider, H., T. S. Sofianidou and P. Kyriakopoulou-Sklavounou. 1984. 
       Bioacoustic and morphometric studies in water frogs (genus Rana) of 
       Lake Ioannina in Greece, and description of a new species 
       (Anura, Amphibia). Zeitschrift für zoologische Systematik und 
       Evolutionsforschung 22(4): 349-366.
Sofianidou, T. S., and H. Schneider. 1989. Distribution range of the Epeirus 
       frog Rana epeirotica (Amphibia: Anura) and the composition of 
       the water frog populations in western Greece. 
       Zoologischer Anzeiger 223(1/2): 13-25.

Title Illustration

Rana epeirotica

Photographs copyright © 1995, Hansjürg Hotz.

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 converted 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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