La rana arvale, Rana arvalis Nilsson, 1842

Nomi comuni esteri - Spagnolo - Rana campestre. Francese - Grenouille des champs. Inglese - Moor Frog, Wolterstorff's Frog. Tedesco - Moorfrosch. Svezia - Åkergroda. Norvegia - Spissnutefrosk. Finlandia - Viitasammakko. Danimarca - Spidssnudet frø. Olanda - heikikker. Croazia - Močvarna (smeđa) žaba. Serbia - Močvarna žaba. Slovenia - Barska žaba, Barjanska žaba, Plavèek. Polonia - Żaba moczarowa. Ungheria - Mocsári béka. Repubblica Ceca - Skokan ostronosý. Slovacchia - Skokan rašelinný. Romania - Broasca de mlastina.

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

Rana terrestris Andrzejowski, 1832, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 2: 342. Sintipi: erano citati molti specimen ma attualmente la loro collocazione è ignota, probabilmente in origine erano depositati al ZMM. Località tipo "Podolia australis et Gubernium Chersonense"; data come "Unteres Bug-Gebiet, Südrussland" da Mertens & Müller, 1928, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 41: 21; data come regione del fiume Bug, Ucraina occidentale (vedere Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 313). Sinonimia di Boulenger, 1898, Tailless Batr. Eur., 2: 288. Precedentemente occupata da Rana terrestris Bonnaterre, 1789 (= Bufo terrestris). Considerata da Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 179, come sinonimo junior di Bufo obstetricans. Sinonimia di Borkin, 1975, Zool. Zh., 54: 1410-1411.
Rana arvalis Nilsson, 1842, Skandanavisk Herpetol.: 92. Materiale tipo: ZMLU per originale designazione; ZMLU 1 designato lectotipo da Gislén in Gislén & Kauri, 1959, Acta Vert., Stockholm, 1: 301. Località tipo "Calmare Län", Svezia meridionale.
Rana oxyrrhinus Steenstrup, 1846, Versamml. Deutsch. Naturforsch. Aerzte, Kiel, 24: 134. Materiale tipo: ZMUC per originale designazione. Località tipo "Dänemark". In sinonimia con Rana temporaria Linnaeus e Rana arvalis di Steenstrup, 1869, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., Ser. 2, 1869: 1. Sinonimia di Rana arvalis sotto Rana temporaria oxyrrhina di Schreiber, 1875, Herpetol. Eur.: 125; Boulenger, 1879, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 4: 169; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 45.
Rana angustifrongs Schiff in Thomas, 1855, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, Ser, 4, 4: 371. Sostituzione di nome per Rana oxyrrhinus Steenstrup.
Rana temporaria var. oxyrrhina Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 16. per implicazione; Boulenger, 1879, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 4: 169; Schreiber, 1875, Herpetol. Eur.: 125.
Rana temporaria var. arvalis Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 16. per implicazione di trattare Rana arvalis Nilsson come subtaxon regionale di Rana temporaria.
Rana oxyrhina Filippi, 1865, Note di un Viaggio in Persia nel 1862, 1: 357. Compitazione susseguente errata. Si pensa che sia basata su specimen di Rana camerani di Boulenger, 1898, Tailless Batr. Eur., 2: 298.
Rana oxyrhinus var. striatus Koch, 1872, Ber. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 1871-72: 144. Materiale tipo: non specificato, probabilmente originariamente depositato al SMF. Località tipo "im Hengster bei Offenbach und bei Mannheim" Germania.
Rana (Crotaphitis) arvalis Schultze, 1891, Jahresber. Abhandl. Naturwiss. Ver. Magdeburg, 1890: 176.
Rana arvalis altaica Kashchenko, 1899, Rezult. Altaiskoi Eksped.: 122. Materiale tipo: non specificato; probabilmente ZISP 2108, 2120-21; NHMW 14843 è considerato sintipo da Häupl, Tiedemann & Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 31. Località tipo basso Ujmon, Ongudaj, Cherga, ed Altajskoe, regione dell'Altai, sud ovest della Siberia, Russia. Sinonimia di Bannikov, Darevsky, Eshchenko, Rustamov & Szszerbak, 1977, Operd. Zemn. I Presm. Fauny SSSR: 58; Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 316, 349.
Rana arvalis var. striata Nikolskii, 1906 "1905", Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 8, 17: 360.
Rana altaica Kashchenko, 1909, Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 14: 129 (basata su esemplari di Rana amurensis secondo Borkin in andlt. <Zhao & Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 138.
Rana arvalis wolterstorffi Fejérváry, 1919, Ann. Hist. Nat. Mus. Natl. Hungarici, 17: 179. Materiale tipo: MNH per originale designazione. Località tipo: "Budapest, Transilvania e Sclavonia", Ungheria. Ristretta a "Budapest", Ungheria da Mertens & Müller, 1928, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 41: 21. Sottospecie respinta da Stugren, 1966, Ann. Zool. Fenn., 3: 32.
Rana terrestris altaica natio issaitschikovi Terentjev, 1927, Proc. Second Congr. Zool. Anat. Histol. USSR: 70-72. Sintipi: ZMM A-675 (18 specimen). Località tipo palude e tundranelle vicinanze di Arkhangelsk, Russia. La compitazione originale errata era issaltschikovi. Collocata in Official List of Specific Names in Zoology da Anonymous, 1962, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 19: 280-281. Sinonimia di Bannikov, Darevsky, Eshchenko, Rustamov & Szszerbak, 1977, Operd. Zemn. I Presm. Fauny SSSR: 57; per implicazione. Vedere Dunayev & Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 65-66, per la discussione di questo nome. Gislén & Kauri, 1959, Acta Vert., Stockholm, 1: 306, riportano che questo taxon ricorda Rana altaica, non Rana arvalis, entrambe ora considerate conspecifiche.
Rana terrestris terrestris Mertens & Müller, 1928, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 41: 21.
Rana terrestris wolterstorffi Mertens & Müller, 1928, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 41: 21.
Rana arvalis arvalis Lindholm, 1929, Zool. Anz., 85: 78. Mertens & Müller, 1940, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 451: 7.
Rana asiatica var. oxyrrhinus Pavlov, 1933, Publ. Mus. Hoang Ho Pai Ho, Tien-Tsin, 23: 8.
Rana arvalis wolterstorffi Mertens & Müller, 1940, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 451: 7.
Rana arvalis issaltschikovi Mertens & Wermuth, 1960, Amph. Rept. Europas: 53.
Rana wolterstorffi Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 148. Sostituzione non confermata.
Rana altaica Ye, Fei & Xiang, 1981, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, 5: 121.
Rana (Rana) altaica Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41. per implicazione; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333; Fei, Ye, Jiang & Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 107.
Rana (Rana) arvalis Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41. per implicazione; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333.
Rana terrestris Dunayev & Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 63. Pikulik, 1996, Zemnavodnyia Pauzuny: 88.
Rana (Laurasiarana) arvalis Hillis & Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 311. per implicazione; Vedere Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 317-330, e Hillis, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 331-338, per la discussione.

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