Long-legged wood frog

Long-legged wood frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Rana
Species:
R. macrocnemis
Binomial name
Rana macrocnemis
Boulenger, 1885
Synonyms[1]
  • Rana camerani
  • Rana macrocnemis ssp. camerani (Boulenger, 1886)

The long-legged wood frog (Rana macrocnemis), also known as Caucasus frog, Brusa frog,[1] or Uludağ frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranidae 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.

References

  1. ^ a b c Sergius Kuzmin, David Tarkhnishvili, Vladimir Ishchenko, Natalia Ananjeva, Nikolai Orlov, Boris Tuniyev, Max Sparreboom, Ismail Ugurtas, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Theodore Papenfuss, Steven Anderson, Güven Eken, Tuba Kiliç, Engin Gem, Uğur Kaya (2009). "Rana macrocnemis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T58651A11820145. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T58651A11820145.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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