Hokkaidō frog

Hokkaidō frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Rana
Species: R. pirica
Binomial name
Rana pirica
Matsui, 1991

The Hokkaidō frog or the Ezo brown frog (Rana pirica) is a species in the Ranidae family found in Hokkaidō, Japan, and Sakhalin. Its natural habitats are boreal forests, temperate forests, temperate shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, ponds, and irrigated land.

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