How to Identify Ranidae

Key Identification Features

• Adult individuals are usually brown, tan, or rust-colored, and most have a distinctive dark mask around the eyes.
• The tympanum is distinct, and it is relatively larger in males than in females.
• The male advertisement call is a distinctive pulsed call made of 2 to 5 notes, and has been described as sounding similar to duck quacking or an exaggerated, sneering laugh.
• tuberilinguis, and recently confirmed as a distinct species based on morphological and DNA sequence data.

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