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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Anura

Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Rana
Species: Rana camerani
Name

Rana camerani Boulenger, 1886

Type locality: "Tabizhuri (2500 m)" and "Achalkalki", Georgia.

Syntypes: BM (1 specimen), ZMB 9345 (3 specimens) & 9344 (1 specimen).
Synonyms

Rana camerani Boulenger, 1886
Rana (Crotaphitis) camerani — Schultze, 1891
Rana cameranoi — Boettger, 1892
Rana (Rana) camerani — Dubois, 1987
Rana (Laurasiarana) camerani — Hillis & Wilcox, 2005

References

Boulenger, 1886, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 11: 597.
Hillis and Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 311.
Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Rana camerani . Accessed on 05 July 2008.
2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Rana camerani (Unknown category) Downloaded on 05 July 2008. (as Rana macrocnemis)

Vernacular names
English: Caucasus Frog

The long-legged wood frog (Rana macrocnemis), also known as Caucasus frog, Brusa frog,[1] or Uludağ frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranidae found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and Turkmenistan.

Its natural habitats are boreal forests, temperate forests, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, rocky areas, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, water storage areas, ponds, and introduced vegetation. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
References

Sergius Kuzmin, David Tarkhnishvili, Vladimir Ishchenko, Natalia Ananjeva, Nikolai Orlov, Boris Tuniyev, Max Sparreboom, Ismail Ugurtas, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Theodore Papenfuss, Steven Anderson, Güven Eken, Tuba Kiliç, Engin Gem, Uğur Kaya (2009). "Rana macrocnemis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T58651A11820145. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T58651A11820145.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.

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