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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Non-native predators and competitors have also been found to affect the viability of frogs in their habitats. The mountain yellow-legged frog which typically inhabits the Sierra Nevada lakes have seen a decline in numbers due to stocking of non-native fish for recreational fishing. The developing tadpoles and froglets fall prey to the fish in ...
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 ...
The story of the demise of the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog goes back to the days of the California gold rush, which began in 1848. Suddenly tens of thousands of miners, many from Europe, were ...