#1949 · 🐸 amphibians

Rio Grande Leopard Frog

Lithobates berlandieri

LCleast concern 🐸 Amphibians 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The Rio Grande leopard frog ( Lithobates berlandieri or Rana berlandieri ) is a species of aquatic frog native to the southern United States in Texas and New Mexico, and south through Mexico and Central America. It is also sometimes referred to as the Mexican leopard frog . The epithet berlandieri is in honor of the Belgian naturalist Jean Louis Berlandier, who worked for the Mexican government on one of the first biological surveys of Texas.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,551iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
11,551 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1859 (167 years ago).