Giant Visayan Frog

Giant Visayan Frog

Taxobox
name = Giant Visayan Frog


status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
familia = Ranidae
genus = "Limnonectes"
species = "L. visayanus"
binomial = "Limnonectes visayanus"
binomial_authority = (Inger, 1954)
synonyms = Rana magna ssp. visayana Inger, 1958The Giant Visayan Frog ("Limnonectes visayanus") is a species of frog in the Ranidae family.It is endemic to the Philippines.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, arable land, pastureland, plantations , rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.It is threatened by habitat loss.

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* Diesmos, A., Alcala, A., Brown, R., Afuang, L., Dolino, C., Gee, G., Hampson, K., Diesmos, M.L., Mallari, A., Ong, P., Paguntalan, L., Pedregosa, M., Ubaldo, D. & Gutierrez, B. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/41232/all Limnonectes visayanus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 23 July 2007.


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