Montane brown frog
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The lines on the montane brown frog’s back often bend behind its eardrums.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Montane brown frog
- Scientific name
- Rana ornativentris
- Japanese name
- ヤマアカガエル
- Group
- Amphibians and reptiles
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Ranidae
- Genus
- Rana
Its hind feet have well-developed webbing. It has no sticky toe pads, so it does not climb up into trees.
Tadpoles eat plant matter such as fallen leaves and moss, while adults eat insects, earthworms and the like.
How the Montane brown frog lives
It lives in hilly and mountainous areas.
多摩動物公園Basic data
- Size
- Body length: 3.6–7.8 cm
- Diet
- Insects, earthworms, and other animals
- Range
- Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Sado Island in Japan
Where the Montane brown frog has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ヤマアカガエル
- 简体中文
- 山林蛙
- 繁體中文
- 山林蛙
- 한국어
- 일본큰산개구리
- العربية
- ضفدع ملون البطن
- Русский
- Пятнистобрюхая лягушка
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 多摩動物公園 — ヤマアカガエルChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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