Talk:Lithobates heckscheri

A fact from Lithobates heckscheri appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 August 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the call of the male river frog can be described as a "deep, low-pitched, rolling snore"?

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Move to Lithobates heckscheri?[edit]

"River frog" can refer to a large number of mostly distantly related frog species (but with some additional qualifiers, such as "Van Dijk's river frog"). It is also the common name for two genera, Amietia and Thoropa. Thus, according to the WP:NCFAUNA the scientific name should be used, or at least, a hatnote should be added. I suggest moving the page. Micromesistius (talk) 07:00, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In general I would agree with you that this frog should be listed under its scientific name. In this instance that would be problematic as there is controversy as to whether it should be classified as Rana heckscheri or Lithobates heckscheri - see the Taxonomy section. I merely expanded an article called "River frog" and have no strong views as to what the page should be called. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:19, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I would not worry too much about the controversy. Wikipedia is pretty consistent in using Lithobates already, in keeping with the Amphibian Species of the World being the "official" source of taxonomy for this project, as well as what IUCN has adopted. Micromesistius (talk) 07:03, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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