| Lowland leopard frog | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Ranidae |
| Genus: | Lithobates |
| Species: | L. yavapaiensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Lithobates yavapaiensis (Platz & Frost, 1984)
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The lowland leopard frog (Lithobates yavapaiensis) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is found in Mexico and the United States.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, and freshwater marshes. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.[1]
Larvae of lowland leopard frogs are herbivorous. The diet of adults is unknown, but they may be opportunistic insectivores, eating aquatic invertebrates and some vertebrates when available. Predators of tadpoles include insects, fish, great blue herons, Sonora mud turtles, tiger salamanders, and garter snakes. Adults are prey of black hawks, ringtail cats, cougars, bobcats, raccoons, American badgers, skunks, gray foxes, coyotes, and American black bears.[3]
References
- ^ a b IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Lithobates yavapaiensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022 e.T19181A53948125. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T19181A53948125.en. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
- ^ NatureServe. "Lithobates yavapaiensis". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
- ^ Lithobates yavapaiensis (Lowland Leopard Frog). Animal Diversity Web. https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Lithobates_yavapaiensis/
- Hillis, D.M., Frost, J.S.,& Wright, D.A. (1983): Phylogeny and biogeography of the Rana pipiens complex: A biochemical evaluation. Systematic Zoology 32: 132–143.
- Hillis, D.M. (1988): Systematics of the Rana pipiens complex: Puzzle and paradigm. Annual Review of Systematics and Ecology 19: 39–63.
- Hillis, D.M. & Wilcox, T.P. (2005): Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 34(2): 299–314. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.007 PDF fulltext.
- Hillis, D. M. (2007) Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 42: 331–338.
