Rana (genus)

Rana
Northern red-legged frog (Rana aurora)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Suborder:	Neobatrachia
Family:	Ranidae
Genus:	Rana Linnaeus, 1758
Subgenera
Lithobates Rana and see text
Synonyms
Lithobates

Rana is a genus of frogs. There are over 90 species of frogs. These include the pond frogs such as the common frog which lives in Europe. The brown frog, leopard frog, and the American bullfrog are also included. Members of Rana can be found in Eurasia, North American, Africa, Central America, and the northern parts of South America.

Species of Rana are very large in length. They have slim waists and wrinkled skin. Most of Rana frogs do not have warts like many toads. Rana frogs are great jumpers because of their long slender legs. All of the Rana frogs, including most frogs, have webbed feet. This allows them to swim in water. Rana frogs are mostly green and have brown on the top. They have darker and yellowish spots on their bodies.

Species

• Rana amurensis – Siberian Tree Frog, Siberian Wood Frog, Amur Brown Frog
• Rana areolata – Crawfish Frog, Ringed Frog, Hoosier Frog, Texas Frog
• Rana arvalis – Moor Frog
• Rana asiatica – Central Asiatic Frog, Asian Frog
• Rana aurora – Northern Red-legged Frog
• Rana berlandieri – Rio Grande Leopard Frog, Mexican Leopard Frog
• Rana blairi – Plains Leopard Frog, Blair's Leopard Frog
• Rana boylii – Foothill Yellow-legged Frog
• Rana brownorum
• Rana bwana – Rio Chipillico Frog
• Rana camerani
• Rana capito – Gopher Frog
• Rana cascadae – Cascades Frog
• Rana catesbeiana – American Bullfrog
• Rana chaochiaoensis – Chaochiao Frog
• Rana chensinensis – Asiatic Grass Frog, Chinese Brown Frog
• Rana chevronta – Chevron-spotted Brown Frog
• Rana chichicuahutla
• Rana chiricahuensis – Chiricahua Leopard Frog
• Rana clamitans – Green Frog
• Rana coreana
• Rana dalmatina – Agile Frog
• Rana draytonii – California Red-legged Frog
• Rana dunni
• Rana dybowskii – Dybowski's Frog
• Rana fisheri – Vegas Valley Leopard Frog
• Rana forreri
• Rana graeca – Greek Stream Frog, Greek Frog
• Rana grylio – Pig Frog
• Rana hanluica
• Rana heckscheri – River Frog
• Rana holtzi
• Rana huanrenensis – Huanren Frog
• Rana iberica – Iberian Frog
• Rana italica – Italian Stream Frog
• Rana japonica – Japanese Brown Frog
• Rana johni
• Rana johnsi – John's Groove-toed Frog
• Rana juliani – Maya Mountains Frog
• Rana kukunoris – Plateau Brown Frog
• Rana kunyuensis
• Rana latastei – Italian Agile Frog, Lataste's Frog
• Rana lemosespinali
• Rana longicrus – Taipa Frog
• Rana luteiventris – Columbia Spotted Frog
• Rana macroglossa
• Rana macrocnemis – Long-legged Wood Frog, Caucasus Frog, Turkish Frog, Brusa Frog
• Rana maculata
• Rana magnaocularis – Northwest Mexico Leopard Frog
• Rana megapoda
• Rana miadis – Island Leopard Frog
• Rana montezumae
• Rana mortenseni
• Rana multidenticulata
• Rana muscosa – Mountain Yellow-legged Frog
• Rana neovolcanica – Transverse Volcanic Leopard Frog
• Rana okaloosae – Florida Bog Frog
• Rana omiltemana – Guerreran Leopard Frog
• Rana onca – Relict Leopard Frog
• Rana ornativentris – Montane Brown Frog, Nikkō Frog
• Rana palmipes – Amazon River Frog
• Rana palustris – Pickerel Frog
• Rana pipiens – Northern Leopard Frog
• Rana pirica – Hokkaidō Frog
• Rana pretiosa – Oregon Spotted Frog
• Rana psilonota
• Rana pueblae
• Rana pueyoi
• Rana pustulosa
• Rana pyrenaica – Pyrenean Frog, Pyrenees Frog
• Rana sakuraii – Stream Brown Frog, Napparagawa Frog
• Rana sauteri
• Rana septentrionalis – Mink Frog
• Rana sevosa – Dusky Gopher Frog, Mississippi Gopher Frog
• Rana shuchinae – Sichuan Frog
• Rana sierrae
• Rana sierramadrensis
• Rana spectabilis
• Rana sphenocephala – Southern Leopard Frog
• Rana subaquavocalis – Ramsey Canyon Leopard Frog
• Rana sylvatica – Wood Frog
• Rana tagoi – Tago's Brown Frog
• Rana tarahumarae
• Rana taylori
• Rana temporaria – Common Frog, European Common Frog, European Common Brown Frog
• Rana tlaloci – Tlaloc's Leopard Frog
• Rana tsushimensis – Tsushima Brown Frog, Tsushima Leopard Frog
• Rana vaillanti – Vaillant's Frog
• Rana vibicaria
• Rana warszewitschii
• Rana weiningensis
• Rana yavapaiensis – Lowland Leopard Frog
• Rana zhengi
• Rana zhenhaiensis – Zhenhai Brown Frog
• Rana zweifeli – Zweifel's Frog
• Rana sp. 'Okinawa' – Ryūkyū Brown Frog, Okinawa Frog

Books

• Dubois, A. & Ohler, A. (1995) Frogs of the subgenus Pelophylax (Amphibia, Anura, genus Rana): a catalogue of available and valid scientific names, with comments on the name-bearing types, complete synonymies. proposed common names, and maps showing all type localities. In: Ogielska, M. (ed.): II International Symposium on Ecology and Genetics of European water frogs, 18-25 September 1994, Wroclaw, Poland. Zoologica Poloniae 39(3-4): 139-204
• Frost, Darrel R. (2006): Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 4, 2006-AUG-17.
• Hillis, D. M. & Wilcox, T. P. (2005): Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 34(2): 299–314. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.007 PDF fulltext
• Matsui, Masafumi (2007): Unmasking Rana okinavana Boettger, 1895 from the Ryukyus, Japan (Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae). Zool. Sci. 24: 199–204. doi:10.2108/zsj.24.199 (HTML abstract)
• Pauly, Greg B., Hillis, David M. & Cannatella, David C. (2009): Taxonomic freedom and the role of official lists of species names. Herpetologica 65: 115-128. PDF fulltext
• Stuart, Bryan L. (2008): The phylogenetic problem of Huia (Amphibia: Ranidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 46(1): 49-60. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.09.016 (HTMl abstract)

Other websites

• Media related to Rana at Wikimedia Commons
• AmphibiaWeb
• Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia