#1882 · 🐸 amphibians
Taurus Frog
🇳🇱 Kleinaziatische kikker ·Rana macrocnemis
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © diegoreggianti · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Babette Köhler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Tom Kirschey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Parham Beyhaghi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © w_shakhparonov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © К. Руслан и Ф. Виктория · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © rostiashvili_ioane · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Anastasiia Merkulova · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The long-legged wood frog , Caucasus frog , or Uludağ frog ( Rana macrocnemis ) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. Its natural habitats are boreal forests, temperate forests, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, rocky areas, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, water storage areas,...
base stats
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.
- 1,551 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Taurus Frog
- Nederlands
- Kleinaziatische kikker
- scientific name
- Rana macrocnemis
- class
- Amphibia
- order
- Anura
- family
- Ranidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 491
- sightings worldwide
- 1,551
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Ranidae
#1836 📷 7European Common Frog
🇳🇱 Bruine Kikker
Rana temporaria
LC 👀 1.8k in NL
#1841 📷 7Moor Frog
🇳🇱 Heikikker
Rana arvalis
LC 👀 136 in NL
#1843 📷 7Marsh Frog
🇳🇱 Meerkikker
Pelophylax ridibundus
LC 👀 71 in NL
#1844 📷 8Edible Frog
🇳🇱 Bastaardkikker
Pelophylax esculentus
👀 66 in NL
#1846 📷 10Pool Frog
🇳🇱 Poelkikker
Pelophylax lessonae
LC 👀 40 in NL
#1853 📷 10Agile Frog
🇳🇱 Springkikker
Rana dalmatina
LC 👀 2 in NL
#1906 📷 10North American Green Frog
🇳🇱 Schreeuwkikker
Lithobates clamitans
LC 🌍 169.2k seen
#1857 📷 10American Bullfrog
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Stierkikker
Lithobates catesbeianus
LC 🌍 153k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 134985, Wikidata Q719417, GBIF 2426798, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.