LITHOBATES CATESBEIANUS (American Bullfrog)

MARANO MILITELLO; NADIA CARLA BACH; JUAN MANUEL PÉREZ-IGLESIAS

HERPETOLOGICAL REVIEW

Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

Año: 2017

0018-084X

Three adult males and two females collected alive. Lithobatescatesbeianus is native from southeastern Canada, much ofthe central and eastern United States, and northeastern Mexico,and has also been reported in another 41 countries throughoutthe world, where it has been introduced for commercial purposes(Barrasso et al. 2009. South Am. J. Herpetol. 4:69?75). Previouslyknown in Argentina from Buenos Aires (Barrasso et al. 2009, op.cit.), Córdoba (Akmentis et al. 2009. Cuad. Herpetol. 23:25?32),Mendoza (Sanabria et al. 2011. Cuad. Herpetol. 25:55?58), Misiones(Pereyra et al. 2006. Cuad. Herpertol. 20:37?40), Salta(Akmentis and Cardozo 2010. Biol. Invasions 12:735?737), andSan Juan (Sanabria et al. 2005. Multequina 14:67?70) provinces.Second province record, extending the known range for the species270 km from previously known closest record (Barrasso etal. 2009, op. cit.). Specimens collected under a permit (22500-22339/13 extension 2016) issued by the Direction of Flora andFauna, Buenos Aires Province.