Animals / Amphibian

Common frog

Rana temporaria · Ranidae

The common frog or grass frog, also known as the European common frog, European common brown frog, European grass frog, European Holarctic true frog, European pond frog, European brown frog, or simply the frog, is a semi-aquatic amphibian of the family Ranidae, found throughout much of Europe as far north as Scandinavia and as far east as the Urals, except for most of the Iberian Peninsula, southern Italy, and the southern Balkans. The farthest west it can be found is Ireland. It is also found in Asia, and eastward to Japan.

Where the Common frog lives

Recorded in Switzerland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Russia and Norway (Europe).

Most records fall in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Noord-Brabant, Gelderland, Niedersachsen, Limburg and Zuid-Holland.

See the Common frog’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 795,386 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.