Long-legged wood frog

Long-legged wood frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Rana
Species: R. macrocnemis
Binomial name
Rana macrocnemis
Boulenger, 1885
Synonyms

Rana camerani Boulenger, 1886
Rana holtzi Werner, 1898
Rana macrocnemis ssp. camerani (Boulenger, 1886)

The long-legged wood frog, Caucasus frog, or Uludağ frog (Rana macrocnemis) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. Its natural habitats are boreal forests, temperate forests, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, rocky areas, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, water storage areas, ponds, and introduced vegetation. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

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