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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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
Historical highlights: Jedediah Smith crossed the Sierra Nevada Range near Ebbetts Pass sometime in 1827, and the first immigrant party of Bartleson–Bidwell crossed over in 1841 near Sonora Pass. The wilderness supports large herds of mule deer and there is also good habitat for black bear , which have become a problem due to an insatiable ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...