Central Asiatic frog
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| Central Asiatic frog | |
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| Photograph of the frog on a person's hand, covering less than the width of two fingers. It has green and black patterned strips on its back and a brown-green body | |
| Central Asiatic frog (Rana asiatica) from Kyrgyzstan. Source: Photo 198887129, (c) Kseniia Marianna Prondzynska, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/198887129 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Ranidae |
| Genus: | Rana |
| Species: | R. asiatica
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| Binomial name | |
| Rana asiatica Bedriaga, 1898
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The Central Asiatic frog (Rana asiatica), or Asian frog, is a species of true frog, found in China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, inland deltas, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, urban areas, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, and irrigated land. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
References
- ↑ Sergius Kuzmin, Boris Tuniyev, Xie Feng, Wang Xiuling (2004). "Rana asiatica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T58549A11801290. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58549A11801290.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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