# Smooth-backed frog

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{{Short description|Species of amphibian}}
{{Speciesbox
| status =  LC 
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 15 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |date=2020 |title=''Lithobates psilonota'' |volume=2020 |article-number=e.T58701A53971394 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T58701A53971394.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Lithobates psilonota
| authority = Frost, 2006
| synonyms = * Rana psilonota, <small>Webb, 2001</small>
}}

The '''smooth-backed frog''' ('''''Lithobates psilonota''''')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/ |title= American Museum of Natural History: Amphibian Species of the World 5.5, an Online Reference |author=Frost, Darrel |author-link=Darrel R. Frost |year=2011 |work=Herpetology |publisher=The American Museum of Natural History |access-date=2013-02-17}}</ref> is a [species](/source/species) of [frog](/source/frog) in the family [Ranidae](/source/Ranidae) [endemic](/source/Endemism) to Mexico.

This species is native to western Mexico, including southern Zacatecas, northern Aguascalientes, and southern Nayarit, and south to western Jalisco and northwestern Colima. It inhabits the basins of the [Ameca](/source/Ameca_River), [Armeria](/source/Armeria_River), and [Grande de Santiago](/source/R%C3%ADo_Grande_de_Santiago) rivers, between 350 and 2,400 meters elevation.<ref name="iucn status 15 November 2021"/>

Its natural [habitat](/source/habitat)s are temperate [forest](/source/forest)s, [subtropical](/source/subtropical) or tropical moist [montane forest](/source/montane_forest)s, and [river](/source/river)s.

It is threatened by [habitat loss](/source/habitat_loss).

==References==
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==Sources==
* {{aut|Hillis, D. M., J. S. Frost, and R. G. Webb.}} (1984) A new species of frog of the ''Rana tarahumarae'' group from southwestern Mexico. ''[Copeia](/source/Copeia)'' '''1984'': 398–403.
* {{aut|Hillis, D.M. & Wilcox, T.P.}} (2005): Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (''Rana''). ''[Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.](/source/Molecular_Phylogenetics_and_Evolution)'' '''34'''(2): 299–314. <small>{{doi|10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.007}}</small> [http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/215.pdf PDF fulltext].

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Category:Lithobates
Category:Endemic amphibians of Mexico
Category:Fauna of the Sierra Madre Occidental
Category:Fauna of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
Category:Río Grande de Santiago
Category:Amphibians described in 2001
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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