Common green frog

The common green frog, leaf frog red-eared frog, golden-lined frog, green paddy frog, common greenback, green lotus frog, or greenbacked frog (Hylarana erythraea) is a frog from Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Borneo, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, and India. It also lives in the Philippines and Sulawesi because human beings brought it there. This frog can live as high in the hills as 1200 meters above sea level.[2][3]

Common green frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Hylarana
Species:
H. erythraea
Binomial name
Hylarana erythraea
(Schlegel, 1837)
Synonyms[2]
  • Hylarana erythraea (Schlegel, 1837)
  • Hylarana erythraea (Tschudi, 1838)
  • Limnodytes erythraeus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
  • Hylorana erythraea (Günther, 1864)
  • Rana erythraea (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Rana (Hylorana) erythraea (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Rana (Hylarana) erythraea (Müller, 1887)
  • Rana (Limnodytes) erythraea (Bourret, 1927)
  • Hylorana erythraea (Deckert, 1938)
  • Polypedates erythraea (Bourret, 1942)
  • Hylarana (Hylarana) erythraea (Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990)
  • Hylarana erythraea (Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005)

The adult female frog is 78 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult male frog is 48 mm long. They can be light green or dark green with a lighter belly. Some of the frogs are blue.[3]

References
  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Common Green Frog: Hylarana erythraea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T58593A114923200. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T58593A114923200.en. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  2. "Hylarana erythraea (Günther, 1858)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  3. Rupi Mudan (November 18, 2005). "Hylarana erythraea: Green Paddy Frog, Common Green Frog, Leaf Frog". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved December 15, 2020.


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