🐸Wood frog
Lithobates sylvaticus or Rana sylvatica, commonly known as the wood frog, is a frog species that has a broad distribution over North America, extending from the boreal forest of the north to the southern Appalachians, with several notable disjunct populations including lowland eastern North Carolina. The wood frog has garnered attention from biologists because of its freeze tolerance, relatively great degree of terrestrialism, interesting habitat associations, and relatively long-range movements. It is the only North American frog that occurs north of the Arctic Circle.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 0.01 kg
- Body length
- 0.08 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 5 years
Everything we know about the Wood frog
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.01 kgAnAgeOther figures ↓Hide ↑
data quality: questionable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Figures vary
- 0.02 kgAmphiBIOv1 (Oliveira et al. 2017)
Body length0.08 mAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan5 yearsrecord 5.2 years · AmphiBIOAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: questionable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 900AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: questionable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
DietarthropodsAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0
Volume l0 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Wood frog yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAmphibia
- ›orderAnura
- ›familyRanidae
- ›genusLithobates
- ›speciesLithobates sylvaticus
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- superfamilyRanoidea
- familyRanidae
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- superorderBatrachia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- suborderNeobatrachia
- superfamilyRanoidea
- familyRanidae
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