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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 .
Tadpoles. R. draytonii is a moderate to large (4.4–14 cm or 1.7–5.5 in) frog. It is the biggest native frog species in the western United States. [10] The back is a brown, grey, olive, or reddish color, with black flecks and dark, irregular, light-centered blotches, and is coarsely granular.
Fires could encroach on critical habitat for the endangered Southern California mountain yellow legged frog. Endangered frogs threatened by California wildfires once again. A rescue could be in order
These frogs have long been known as Pacific chorus frogs Pseudacris regilla. Then, in 2006, Recuero et al. split that taxonomic concept into three species. [ 5 ] Recuero et al. attached the name Pseudacris regilla with the northern piece, renaming the central piece the Sierran tree frog ( Pseudacris sierra ) and the southern piece the Baja ...
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 ...
Rana (derived from Latin rana, meaning 'frog') is a genus of frogs commonly known as the Holarctic true frogs, pond frogs or brown frogs. Members of this genus are found through much of Eurasia and western North America .
Lithobates sphenocephalus [1] [3] or Rana sphenocephala, [4] [5] [6] commonly known as the southern leopard frog, is a medium-sized anuran in the family Ranidae (the true frogs). The southern leopard frog is one of the 36 species currently or formerly classified in the Rana genus found in North America. [ 7 ]
A pack of grey wolves has been spotted in a popular California national park for the first time in a century. The pack – consisting of one adult male, an adult female, and two cubs – was ...