Lowland leopard frog

Lowland Leopard Frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Lithobates
Species: L. yavapaiensis
Binomial name
Lithobates yavapaiensis
(Platz & Frost, 1984)
Synonyms

Rana yavapaiensis Platz & Frost, 1984

The Lowland Leopard Frog, (Lithobates yavapaiensis), is a species of frog in the Ranidae family that is found in Mexico and the United States; in Spanish it is known as rana de Yavapai. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, and freshwater marshes. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

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