Hylarana raniceps
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| Copper cheeked tree frog | |
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| Copper cheeked tree frog from Singapore | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | "Amphibia" (wide sense) |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Ranidae |
| Genus: | Hylarana |
| Species: | H. raniceps |
| Binomial name | |
| Hylarana raniceps (Peters, 1871) | |
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Hylarana raniceps is a species of true frog in the genus Hylarana. It is native to Brunei Darussalam, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and possibly Myanmar.[1]
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.[1]
It was long known as Rana chalconota (now Hylarana chalconota) in error; that name refers to a related parapatric species.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Peter Paul van Dijk, Djoko Iskandar, Robert Inger, Indraneil Das, Sushil Dutta, S.P. Vijayakumar 2004. Hylarana raniceps. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1.
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