- Rana pipa Linnaeus, 1758
- Pipa americana Laurenti, 1768
- Pipa pipa Cuvier, 1829
Etymology
pipa: according to Daudin, 1802, 'pipa' was the local Surinamese name for this frog species
Type material and localities
Syntypes: specimens figured by Seba, 1734. Type Locality: "Surinami".
Native country records from Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Guyane Française, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela. Limits are: NORTH: Trinidad and Tobago: Nariva Swamp (10°25'N, 61°04'W) — SOUTH: Brasil: Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade (15°00'S, 59°57'W) — WEST: Ecuador: Shiripuno River (01°05'S, 77°03'W) — EAST: Brasil: Braganca (01°03'S, 46°46'W).
Record outside native range from USA.
References
- Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert de (1829): Le Règne Animal, distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. - , Deterville, Paris, 2: pp. [1-15], 1-406.
- Daudin, François Marie (1802/1803): Histoire naturelle des rainettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds. - , Bertrandet & Levrault, Paris, 108 pp.
- Laurenti, Josephus Nicolaus (1768): Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium Austriacorum. - , Trattnern, Wien, pp. [1-2], 1-214, [1], Tab. I-V [= 1-5].
- Linnæus, Carl Nilsson (1758): Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus differentiis, synonymis, locis. - , Lars Salvius, Stockholm, 1: pp. [1-4], 1-824.
- Seba, Albertus (1734): Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam. Opus, cui, in hoc rerum genere, nullum par exstitit. Ex toto terrarum orbe collegit, digessit, et depingendum curavit. - , Wetstenium, Smith & Janssonio-Waesbergios, Amsterdam, 1: pp. [1-32], 1-178, pl. 1-111.
