Columbia Spotted Frog

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Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Ranidae
Genus:	Rana
Species:	R. luteiventris

Binomial name

Rana luteiventris
Thompson, 1913

The Columbia Spotted Frog (Rana luteiventris) is a North American species of frog. It is green to brown in color with spots on the dorsal surface. The belly and upper lip are white in color. Individuals can be distinguished from other Rana species by their shorter back legs, narrow snout and upturned eyes. Since they spend most of their time in the water, they also have more webbing in their hind feet than similar species^{[citation needed]}. Although unthreatened, this animal has been studied as a model species for the effects of habitat fragmentation^[1].

[edit] Footnotes

^ Funk, W.C., A.E. Greene, P.S. Corn & F.W. Allendorf. (2005) "High dispersal in a frog species suggests that it is vulnerable to habitat fragmentation." Biol. Lett. 1(1): 13-6.

[edit] References

Cossel Jr., John.1997.Rana luteiventris.Idaho Museum of Natural History. Accessed March 10, 2006
Hammerson (2004). Rana luteiventris. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes a range map and a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
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.