Asiatic Grass Frog
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| Asiatic Grass Frog | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Ranidae |
| Genus: | Rana |
| Species: | R. chensinensis |
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| Rana chensinensis David, 1875 |
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The Asiatic Grass Frog or Chinese Brown Frog (Rana chensinensis) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is found in China, Mongolia, possibly North Korea, and possibly Russia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, arable land, pastureland, and irrigated land. It is threatened by habitat loss. Within China, it is hunted for use in food and medicine (namely hasma).
[edit] References
- "Rana chensinensis". Amphibian Species of the World 5.0. http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/references.php?id=22689. Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- (2004). Rana chensinensis. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 2006-06-12.
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