Open AccessTaxonomic reassessment of Middle Eastern water frogs: Bioacoustic variation among populations considered as Rana ridibunda, R. bedriagae or R. levantina
Author(s) -
Schneider H.,
Sinsch U.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of zoological systematics and evolutionary research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.769
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1439-0469
pISSN - 0947-5745
DOI - 10.1046/j.1439-0469.1999.372098.x
Subject(s) - rana ridibunda , biology , bioacoustics , zoology , variation (astronomy) , ecology , astrophysics , acoustics , physics
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 .