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The American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus), often simply known as the bullfrog in Canada and the United States, is a large true frog native to eastern North America. It typically inhabits large permanent water bodies such as swamps , ponds , and lakes .
The name was previously used by Frost et al. as a separate genus of ranid frogs that included most of the North American frogs traditionally included in the genus Rana, [7] including the American bullfrog and northern leopard frog. Frost used the name in this sense in the frog section of a North American common names list edited by Crother ...
Bullfrog is a common English language term to refer to large, aggressive frogs, regardless of species. ... American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus), ...
2.3 Genus Bufo or Anaxyrus. 2.4 Genus Hyla. 2.5 Genus Rana. ... American bullfrog – Lithobates catesbeianus LC; Northern green frog – Lithobates clamitans LC;
The annual global trade in the American bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana), mostly farmed in China, varies between 1200 and 2400 tonnes. [ 219 ] The mountain chicken frog , so-called as it tastes of chicken, is now endangered, in part due to human consumption, and was a major food choice of the Dominicans . [ 220 ]
Certain frog species, such as the American bullfrog, according to the Amphibian Ark organization, have immune defenses that are fully tolerant of the disease, and others live in environments that ...
American bullfrog: Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw, 1802) Abundant Statewide Green frog: Lithobates clamitans (Rafinesque, 1820) Abundant If subspecies are recognized, the Pennsylvania subspecies would be Lithobates clamitans melanota: Statewide Atlantic Coast leopard frog: Lithobates kauffeldi (Feinberg et al., 2014) Endangered
This is a list of amphibians of New Mexico: all frogs, toads, and salamanders native to the U.S. state of New Mexico.. New Mexico has extreme biomes, having mountain ranges down the east and west sides of the state, with forests in the west, desert in the central and eastern regions, and grasslands in the northeast near the border of Oklahoma.