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The Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog or Sierra Nevada Mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana sierrae) is a true frog endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California and Nevada in the United States. It was formerly considered Rana muscosa until a 2007 study elevated the more central and northern populations to full species status, restricting R. muscosa ...
The Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog was added to the endangered species list in 2014. But then the scientists saw a ray of hope. Frog populations crashed in lake after lake in the high Sierra as ...
The mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa), also known as the southern mountain yellow-legged frog, is a species of true frog endemic to California in the United States. [1] [2] It occurs in the San Jacinto Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California and the Southern Sierra Nevada.
Yellow-legged frog may refer to: Foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii), a frog in the family Ranidae found from northern Oregon, down California's west coast and into Baja California; Mountain yellow-legged frog, (Rana muscosa), a frog in the family Ranidae endemic the mountain ranges of Southern California up to the southern Sierra Nevada ...
Mountain yellow-legged frogs are named for their lemon-hued bellies and hind legs. A biologist holds a bag of yellow-legged frog tadpoles that were recovered from a fire-scarred area of the San ...
As streams dry up in the San Gabriel Mountains, biologists are searching harder for suitable areas to reintroduce a rare frog species. Rare yellow-legged frogs are returned to drought-hammered San ...
Lowland leopard frog * Rana aurora: Northern red-legged frog Rana boylii: Foothill yellow-legged frog Rana cascadae: Cascades frog Rana draytonii: California red-legged frog Rana luteiventris: Columbia spotted frog * Rana muscosa: Southern mountain yellow-legged frog Rana pretiosa: Oregon spotted frog * Rana sierrae: Sierra Nevada yellow-legged ...
L.A. Zoo animal care staff and conservationists released 170 endangered southern mountain yellow-legged frogs into their natural habitat in the San Gabriel Mountains.