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Pelophylax nigromaculatus (Dark-spotted Frog)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The dark-spotted frog, or black-spotted frog (Pelophylax nigromaculatus, formerly Rana nigromaculata), is a species of true frog found in East Asia. It occurs across much of eastern and northeastern China, the Amur River valley in Russia, the Korean Peninsula, and most of Japan, although it does not occur on Hokkaidō. It has been considered the commonest of the true frogs on the Korean Peninsula, and has been hunted for food and used as an experimental animal. There is an introduced population in Turkmenistan. Parasites of this frog include the opalinid Protoopalina pingi, in the rectum.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.43
EDGE Score: 2.83
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  56.4 grams
Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Female Maturity [2]  2 years
Male Maturity [2]  2 years
Litter Size [2]  2,800
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  15 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.575 inches (9.08 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Azumayama Forest Forest Ecosystem Reserve IV   Fukushima, Japan  
Yancheng Nature Reserve V 711488 China    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan No

Predators

Andrias japonicus (Japanese giant salamander)[3]
Ciconia boyciana (Oriental Stork)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3CHARACTERISTICS OF JAPANESE GIANT SALAMANDER (ANDRIAS JAPONICUS) POPULATIONS IN TWO SMALL TRIBUTARY STREAMS IN HIROSHIMA PREFECTURE, WESTERN HONSHU, JAPAN, SUMIO OKADA, TAEKO UTSUNOMIYA, TAMAMI OKADA, ZACHARY I. FELIX, AND FUMIHIKO ITO, Herpetological Conservation and Biology 3(2):192-202 (2008)
♦ 4Oriental Stork, BirdLife International (2001) Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0