Sierran Treefrog (Pseudacris sierra)

About Sierran Treefrog (Pseudacris sierra)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Amphibians
• Order: Toads and Frogs
• Family: Tree Frogs

Comments: Recuero et al. (2006) examined patterns of mtDNA variation (including new samples and additional samples presented by Ripplinger and Wagner 2004) and reviewed available allozyme data for Pseudacris regilla (sensu lato). They concluded that P. regilla should be partitioned into three species, P. regilla, P. sierra, and P. hypochondriaca (the original proposal included different names based on taxonomic errors that were subsequently corrected). The authors did not provide detailed maps or deions of the ranges of the three proposed species and did not describe the contact zones between P. sierra and the other two species.