Vaillant's frog | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Ranidae |
Genus: | Lithobates |
Species: | L. vaillanti |
Binomial name | |
Lithobates vaillanti (Brocchi, 1877) |
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Synonyms | |
Rana bonaccana Günther, 1900 |
Rana bonaccana Günther, 1900
Rana vaillanti Brocchi, 1877
Vaillant's frog (Lithobates vaillanti) is a species of frog in the Ranidae family found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forests, water storage areas, ponds, and canals and ditches.