Vaillant's frog

Vaillant's frog
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Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Ranidae
Genus:	Lithobates
Species:	L. vaillanti
Binomial name
Lithobates vaillanti (Brocchi, 1877)
Synonyms
Rana bonaccana Günther, 1900 Rana vaillanti Brocchi, 1877

Vaillant's frog (Lithobates vaillanti) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forests, water storage areas, ponds, and canals and ditches.

References

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• Santos-Barrera, G., Solís, F., Ibáñez, R., Chaves, G., Wilson, L.D., Castro, F., Coloma, L.A., Ron, S., Acosta-Galvis, A. & Morales, M. 2004. Rana vaillanti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.