New County Records and Other Data Since 1996

Rana palustris Le Conte - Pickerel Frog

Since publication of Atlas of Amphibians in Tennessee (Redmond, W. H. and A. F. Scott. 1996. The Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. 94 pp.), several applicable taxonomic and nomenclatural changes and numerous reports of new county records have appeared in the literature. Comments, accompanied by cited references, on the taxonomic and nomenclatural changes plus bibliographical information on county records as they pertain to Rana palustris follow:

Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Changes

The genus Rana was split by Frost et al. (2006, The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297:1-370), and all eastern North American ranid species placed in the genus Lithobates.

New County Records

Cocke, Coffee, Jefferson, Johnson, Polk, Sullivan, Sumner and Unicoi counties 

Niemiller, M. L. and R. G. Reynolds.  2011. Pickerel Frog. Pp. 310-312 In M. L. Niemiller and R. G. Reynolds (eds.), The amphibians of Tennessee. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. 369 pp.

DeKalb, Marshall, Moore, and Warren counties

Niemiller, M.L., B.M. Glorioso, G.R. Wyckoff, III, and J.K. Spiess.  2007.  New county records for amphibians in Middle Tennessee.  Herpetol. Rev. 38:234.

Hardin County

Niemiller, M. L., and B. T. Miller.  2006.  Geographic distribution.  Rana palustris.  Herpetol. Rev. 37:489-490.

Marshall County 

Haislip, N.  2007.  Geographic distribution.  Rana palustris.  Herpetol. Rev. 38:477.

Maury County

Miller, J. H., J. A. Miller, M. L. Niemiller, and B. T. Miller.  2006.  Geographic distribution.  Rana palustris.  Herpetol. Rev. 37:490.

Morgan County

Campbell, T. S. 2002. New records for amphibians in the Big South Fork region of Tennessee. Herpetol. Rev. 33:230-231.

Niemiller, M. L. and B. M. Glorioso.  2006.  Geographic distribution.  Rana palustris.  Herpetol. Rev. 37:102.

Scott County

English, R. and A. English. 2000. Geographic distribution. Rana palustris. Herpetol. Rev. 31:252.

Smith County 

Carey, A. N. and M. A. Anderson.  2011.  Geographic distribution: Lithobates palustris. Herpetol. Rev. 42:386. 

Trousdale County

Glorioso, B. M. and J. Pruett.  2007.  New records for amphibians and reptiles from Trousdale County, Tennessee.  Herpetol. Rev. 38: 247-248.

Wayne County 

Messer, M., L. Bennie, and B. P. Butterfield.  2006.  Geographic distribution.  Rana palustris.  Herpetol. Rev. 37:359.