Long-legged Wood Frog
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| Rana macrocnemis Boulenger, 1885 |
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| Rana camerani Boulenger, 1886
Rana holtzi Werner, 1898
Rana macrocnemis ssp. camerani (Boulenger, 1886)
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The Long-legged Wood Frog, Caucasus Frog or Turkish Frog (Rana macrocnemis) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is 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 marches, 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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- Kuzmin, S., Tarkhnishvili, D., Ishchenko, V., Ananjeva, N., Orlov, N., Tuniyev, B., Sparreboom, M., Ugurtas, I., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Papenfuss, T. & Anderson, S. 2004. Rana macrocnemis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.
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