| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Authors: | Schneider, H., Sinsch, U. |
| Journal: | Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary ResearchJournal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Pagination: | 57-65 |
| Date Published: | 1999/// |
| Keywords: | Advertisement calls -, Allopatric variation, Amphibia, Bioacoustic method -, Call analysis -, Rana bedriagae -, Rana ridibunda - |
| Abstract: | Temporal characteristics of advertisement calls of water frogs of 10 localities in Turkey, Syria, Israel and Egypt were compared with those of Rana ridibunda in Kazakhstan, Armenia and Greece (Thrace) as reference populations. These study sites include the type localities of R. ridibunda, R. r. caralitana, R. esculenta var. bedriagae und R. levantina. The temperature-dependent as well as the temperature-independent call parameters clearly revealed two species. R. ridibunda is represented by the three reference populations and, in addition, a population in central Turkey. The other populations (in Turkey, Syria, Israel and Egypt) represent R. bedriagae. R. bedriagae is the oldest available name for water frogs of these regions and was given priority over R. r. caralitana and R. levantina. |
Taxonomic reassessment of Middle Eastern water frogs: Bioacoustic variation among populations considered as Rana ridibunda, R. bedriagae or R. levantina
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