''Lithobates brownorum'',
[ is a ]species
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of frog
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native to southern Veracruz
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and northeastern Oaxaca
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east through the Yucatan Peninsula and the uplands of Chiapas
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in southern Mexico through Guatemala and Honduras to Nicaragua. Its separateness from ''Lithobates berlandieri
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'' has been questioned but molecular data now supports the conclusion that it is a separate species.[
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References
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Lithobates
Amphibians of Guatemala
Amphibians of Honduras
Amphibians of Mexico
Amphibians of Nicaragua
Amphibians described in 1973