Rana palmipes Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 5. Syntypes: Not designated but including animal figured on pl. 5, fig. 2 in the original publication; ZSM (4 specimens), including ZSM 963/0 (2 specimens), now lost, according to Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, Suppl., 9: 359, who provided discussion. See also comments by Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, 29: 186. Type locality: "in aquis stagnantibus fluminis Amazonum" = stagnant waters of the Amazon River, Brazil.
Rana juninensis Tschudi, 1845, Arch. Naturgesch., 11: 167. Types: Not designated, although presumably originally in MHNN. Type locality: "Republica Peruana"; given as "Laguna von Junin, 13000 Füss u. M.", Peru, by Tschudi, 1846 "1845", Untersuch. Fauna Peruana, Herpetol.: 63. Type locality is suspect if identification and synonymy is correct. Possible confusion with Telmatobius?--DRF. Synonymy by Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 622; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 48; Boulenger, 1919, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 3: 415.
Lithobates palmipes — Jan, 1857, Cenni Mus. Civ. Milano: 53.
Ranula gollmeri Peters, 1859, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1859: 402. Syntypes: ZMB 3193 (2 specimens) according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 50. Type locality: "Carácas", Venezuela. Synonymy by Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 205; Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 622; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 48.
Rana affinis Peters, 1859, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1859: 403. Syntypes: ZMB 3291 and 7186 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 50. Type locality: "Carácas", Venezuela. Synonymy by Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 205; Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 622; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 48.
Rana clamata var. guianensis Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 412. Holotype: ZMB 3116 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 50. Type locality: "wirklich aus Guiana" [= Guyana]. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1891, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 8: 453-457.
Ranula affinis — Cope, 1866, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 18: 130.
Pohlia palmipes — Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 15.
Ranula palmipes — Cope, 1871, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 23: 222.
Ranula brevipalmata Cope, 1874, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 26: 131. Holotype: ANSP 11398, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 349 Type locality: "Nauta", Loreto, Peru. Secondary homonym of Rana brevipalmata Peters, 1871. Secondary homonym of Rana brevipalmata Peters, 1871. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1919, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 3: 415.
Ranula nigrilatus Cope, 1874, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 26: 131. Types: Presumably ANSP, not located. Type locality: "Nauta", Departamento Loreto, Peru. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1919, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 3: 415.
Hylarana brevipalmata — Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 175.
Rana (Ranula) affinis — Sumichrast, 1880, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 5: 189.
Rana nigrilatus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 49.
Rana copii Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 49. Replacement name for Ranula brevipalmata Cope, 1874.
Rana brevipalmata — Fowler, 1913, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 65: 166.
Ranula nigrilatus — Boulenger, 1920, Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., 55: 473.
Rana palmipes forma rionapensis Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37: 3. Holotype: NHRM. Type locality: "Rio Napo, 400 m", eastern Ecuador.
Rana (Rana) palmipes — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. by implication.
Rana (Lithobates) palmipes — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 330.
Rana (Novirana, Sierrana, Ranula, Lithobates) palmipes — Hillis and Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 305. See Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 317-330, Hillis, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 331-338, and Dubois, 2007, Cladistics, 23: 390-402, for relevant discussion of nomenclature. Invalid name formulation under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) as discussed by Dubois, 2007, Cladistics, 23: 395.
Lithobates palmipes — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 369. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13; by implication.
Lithobates (Lithobates) palmipes — Dubois, 2006, C. R. Biol., Paris, 329: 829. Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 325.
Rana (Lithobates) palmipes — Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 335-336. by implication.