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Conraua goliath ゴライアスガエル🐸

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SpeciesAnuraConrauidae
Amphibians

🐸Goliath frog

Conraua goliath (Boulenger, 1906)

골리앗개구리는 세상에서 제일 큰 개구리이다. 가장 큰 몸길이의 기록이 32cm이고 다리를 쭉 펴면 70cm가 넘는다고 하며, 이 뒷다리로 최대 3m를 뛴다. 울음주머니가 없어 울지 못한다. 지도에서 보다시피 서아프리카의 매우 협소한 지역에만 살고 있으며,서식지 파괴와 애완동물로 거래되기 때문에 국제적 멸종위기종에 처해 있다. 사육상태에서는 거의 번식시키기가 불가능하다. 서아프리카에서는 식용한다. 올챙이는 물살이 빠른 급류에 살며 초식성이다.

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≈ 1/19th of your weight
Also called
Giant Slippery Frog
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
3.25 kg
Body length
0.32 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
5.9 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Goliath frog

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
3.25 kg
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
0.32 m
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
5.9 yearsrecord 5.9 years · AmphiBIO
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
arthropods, vertebrates
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
3.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Goliath frog yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderAnura
  5. ›familyConrauidae
  6. ›genusConraua
  7. ›speciesConraua goliath
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  3. superfamilyRanoidea
  4. genusConraua
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  9. superorderBatrachia
  10. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  11. suborderNeobatrachia
  12. superfamilyRanoidea
  13. genusConraua
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Closest relative on this site
🐸 Cane toad — last shared an ancestor ≈ 171 million years ago.
In other languages
ضفدع جبار (ar), Conraua goliath (pt), Goliat płochliwy (pl), צפרדע גוליית (he), Лягушка-голиаф (ru), Conraua goliath (fr) … and 21 more languages
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Conraua goliath ゴライアスガエルGoliath Frog (Conraua goliath) in CameroonMuseu de Cultures del Món.
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