Hokkaidō frog
| Hokkaidō frog | |
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| 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.
References
- Kuzmin, S., Kaneko, Y. & Matsui, M. (2004). Rana pirica. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.
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