Giant Visayan frog
| Giant Visayan frog | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dicroglossidae |
| Genus: | Limnonectes |
| Species: | L. visayanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Limnonectes visayanus (Inger, 1954) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Rana magna ssp. visayana Inger, 1958 | |
The Giant Visayan frog (Limnonectes visayanus) is a species of frog in the Dicroglossidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines, and is known from Masbate, Cebu, Negros, Guimaras, Panay, and Siquijor islands.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, 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.
Sources
- 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). "Limnonectes visayanus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2004: e.T41232A10420714. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T41232A10420714.en. Retrieved 20 December 2017.