Cryptic Diversity in Metropolis: Confirmation of a New Leopard Frog Species (Anura: Ranidae) from New York City and Surrounding Atlantic Coast Regions

• Jeremy A. Feinberg ,

  * E-mail: jeremy.feinberg@rutgers.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Catherine E. Newman,

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell,

  Affiliation Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Matthew D. Schlesinger,

  Affiliation New York Natural Heritage Program, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Brian Zarate,

  Affiliation New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, Endangered and Nongame Species Program, Clinton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Brian R. Curry,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

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• H. Bradley Shaffer,

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Joanna Burger

  Affiliations Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

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