The identity of the crackling, luminescent frog of Suriname (Rana typhonia Linnaeus, 1758) (Amphibia, Anura)
Author
Sá, De
text
Zootaxa
2010
2671
17
30
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.276466
f1e3707c-f14d-4d39-8509-0b770e8347f8
1175-5326
276466
Rana vesicaria
Fermin, 1765
.
The species is included among the
Anura
incertae sedis
(
Frost 2010
), but the presence of paired vocal sacs (“...
Cette Grenouille a à chaque côté de la machoire inférieure, une Vessie, qui dans les grandes chaleurs sont remplies d’air
...”) and its origin (“
Hollande
Equinoxiale”, i.e.,
Surinam
), leads us to consider it as a synonym of
Trachycephalus typhonius
.
Although Fermin’s book was included in the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Works by Opinion 660 (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1963), only the names of seven species of turtles were formally included in the list of rejected taxa. The rejection of the book suppress all the contained species, and our comment on
Rana vesicaria
is only intended to tie a loose end in the nomenclature of Neotropical amphibians.