Biology:Daruma pond frog

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Short description: Species of amphibian

Daruma pond frog
Rana porosa porosa.jpg
Tokyo Daruma pond frog
Rana porosa brevipoda.jpg
Nagoya Daruma pond frog
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Pelophylax
Species:
P. porosus
Binomial name
Pelophylax porosus
(Cope, 1868)[2]
Synonyms
  • Tomopterna porosa Cope, 1868
  • Rana porosa (Cope, 1868)

The Daruma pond frog (Pelophylax porosus) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It has two subspecies, P. porosus porosus (the Tokyo Daruma pond frog) and P. porosus brevipodus (the Nagoya Daruma pond frog). It is endemic to Japan. The average size of males is 3.5 to 6.2 cm, while females are from 3.7 to 7.3 cm.

Its natural habitats are temperate grassland, rivers, freshwater marshes, ponds, irrigated land, and canals and ditches. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2021). "Pelophylax porosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T58699A179261024. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T58699A179261024.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/58699/179261024. Retrieved 17 November 2021. 
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2013). "Pelophylax porosus (Cope, 1868)". Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/?action=names&taxon=Pelophylax+porosus. Retrieved 12 June 2013. 

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