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SpeciesAnuraRanidae
Amphibians

🐸Common frog

Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758

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. The nominative, and most common, subspecies Rana temporaria temporaria is a largely terrestrial frog native to Europe. It is distributed throughout northern Europe and can be found from Ireland to as far east as Japan.

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≈ 1/1,300th of your weight
Also called
Rana temporaria, European Common Frog
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.05 kg
Body length
0.11 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
27 years
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Everything we know about the Common frog

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

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

Body length
0.11 m
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Maximum lifespan
27 yearsrecord 27 years · AmphiBIO
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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

Litter size
about 2585
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

Volume l
0 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 Common frog yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderAnura
  5. ›familyRanidae
  6. ›genusRana
  7. ›speciesRana temporaria
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderFrogs & toads · Anura
  3. superfamilyRanoidea
  4. familyRanidae
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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. familyRanidae
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Closest relative on this site
🐸 Moor frog — last shared an ancestor ≈ 8.4 million years ago.
In other languages
Grasfrosch (de), skokan hnědý (cs), Rana temporaria (es), sammakko (fi), Grenouille rousse (fr), buttsnutefrosk (nb) … and 25 more languages
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