La rana dell'Epiro, Pelophylax epeiroticus

(Schneider, Sofianidou & Kyriakopoulou-Sklavounou, 1984)

Nomi comuni esteri - Francese - Grenouille épirote. Inglese - Epirus Water Frog, Epirus Pool Frog. Tedesco - Epirusfrosch. Svezia - Epirusgroda. Olanda - Griekse poelkikker. Repubblica Ceca - Skokan epeiroský.

Classificazione - Regno: Animalia. Sottoregno: Eumetazoa. Phylum: Chordata. Subphylum: Vertebrata. Superclasse: Gnathostomata. Classe: Amphibia. Sottoclasse: Lissamphibia. Ordine: Anura. Sottordine: Dispasiocoela. Famiglia: Ranidae. Genere: Pelophylax.

Rana epeirotica Schneider, Sofianidou & Kyriakopoulou-Sklavounou, 1984, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 22: 363. Olotipo: ZFMK 41679, dalla designazione originale. Località tipo: "sponda est del lago Ioannina a ca. 5 km a sud di Amphithea", Grecia.
Rana (Pelophylax) epeirotica Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332.
Hylarana epeirotica Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho & Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237. per implicazione.
Pelophylax epeiroticus Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 369. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao & Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: xxx, per implicazione.

Fonti bibliografiche principali - Gasc, J.-P. (ed.) 1997. Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles in Europe. Societas Europea Herpetologica & Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

Bibliografia - Arnold, E.N. 2003. Reptiles and Amphibians of Europe. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford.

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.

Dubois, A. 1992. Notes sur la clasification des Ranidae (Amphibiens Anoures). Bull. Mensuel. Soc. Linneenne de Lyon. 61(10): 305-352.

Gasc, J.-P. (ed.) 1997. Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles in Europe. Societas Europea Herpetologica & Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

Guerrini, F., Bucci, S., Ragghianti, M., Mancino, G., Hotz, H., Uzzell, T. and Berger, L. 1997. Genomes of two water frog species resist germ line exclusion in interspecies hybrids. Journal of Experimental Zoology 279: 163-176.

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

Plötner, J. 1998. Genetic diversity in mitochondrial 12S rDNA of western Palearctic water frogs (Anura, Ranidae) and implication for their systematics. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 36: 191-201.

Plötner, J., Ohst, T., Böhme, W. and Schreiber, R. 2001. Divergence in mitochondrial DNA of near eastern water frogs with special reference to the systematic status of Cypriote and Anatolian populations (Anura, Ranidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 22(4): 397-412.

Schneider, H. and Joermann, G. 1988. Mating calls of water frogs (Ranidae) from lake Skutari, Yugoslavia, and the relationship to water frogs of other regions. Z. zool. Syst. Evolut. -forsch 26: 261-275.

Schneider, H., Sofianidou, T.S. and Kyriakopoulou-Sklavounou, P. 1984. Bioacoustic and morphometric studies in water frogs (genus Rana) of Lake Ioannina in Greece, and description of a new species (Anura, Amphibia). Z. zool.Syst.Evolut.-forsch 22: 349-366.

Sofiandou, T.S., Schneider, H. and Sinsch, U. 1994. Comparative electrophoretic investigation on Rana balcanica and Rana ridibunda from northern Greece. Alytes 12(3): 93-108.

Tsiora, A. and Kyriakopoulou-Sklavounou, P. 2001. Male reproductive cycle of the water frog Rana epeirotica in northwestern Greece. Amphibia-Reptilia 22(3): 291-302.

Tsiora, A. and Kyriakopoulou-Sklavounou, P. 2002. Female reproductive cycle of the water frog Rana epeirotica in northwestern Greece. Amphibia-Reptilia 23(3): 269-280.