#1910 · 🐸 amphibians

Wood Frog

🇳🇱 Boskikker ·Lithobates sylvaticus

LCleast concern 🐸 Amphibians 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The wood frog ( Lithobates sylvaticus or Rana sylvatica ) has a broad distribution over North America, extending from the Boreal forest of Canada and Alaska to the southern Appalachians, with several notable disjunct populations including lowland eastern North Carolina. The wood frog has garnered attention by biologists over the last century because of its freeze tolerance, relatively great degree of terrestrialism (for a ranid), interesting habitat associations (peat bogs, vernal pools, uplands), and relatively long-range movements. The...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 76,225iNaturalist 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).