Giant Visayan frog
| Limnonectes visayanus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dicroglossidae |
| Genus: | Limnonectes |
| Species: | L. visayanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Limnonectes visayanus (Inger, 1954) | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Rana magna ssp. visayana Inger, 1958 | |
The Giant Visayan frog (Limnonectes visayanus) is a species of frog in the Dicroglossidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Source
- Diesmos, A., Alcala, A., Brown, R., Afuang, L., Dolino, C., Gee, G., Hampson, K., Diesmos, M.L., Mallari, A., Ong, P., Paguntalan, L., Pedregosa, M., Ubaldo, D. & Gutierrez, B. 2004. Limnonectes visayanus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.
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