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Rana asiatica Bedriaga, 1898

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

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Open encyclopedia reference

The Central Asiatic frog (Rana asiatica), or Asian frog, is a species of true frog, found in China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, inland deltas, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, urban areas, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, and irrigated land.

Wikipedia contributors, Central Asiatic frog; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T18:24:20.079880+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Rana asiatica Bedriaga, 1898
Name authority
Bedriaga, 1898
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Amphibia
Order
Anura
Family
Ranidae
Genus
Rana
Extinction status
Recorded extant

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classAmphibia
  9. orderAnura
  10. familyRanidae Batsch, 1796
  11. genusRana Linnaeus, 1758
  12. speciesRana asiatica Bedriaga, 1898

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Rana. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Rana chaochiaoensis Liu, 1946RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rana chevronta Hu & Ye, 1978RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rana culaiensis Li, Lu & Li, 2008RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rana huanrensis Fei, Ye & Huang, 1990RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rana iberica Boulenger, 1879RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rana japonica Boulenger, 1879RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rana maoershanensis Lu, Li & Jiang, 2007RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rana neba Ryuzaki, Hasegawa & Kuramoto, 2014RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rana macrocnemis Boulenger, 1885RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
European frogRana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rana sakuraii Matsui & Matsui, 1990RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rana italica Dubois, 1987RanidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant

Browse 320 records assigned to Ranidae.

Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded nameSource status
Rana bachtyana Kashchenko, 1909 Kashchenko, 1909synonym
Rana amurensis balchaschensis Terentjev, 1923 Terentjev, 1923synonym
Rana asiatica issikkulensis Kaschkarov, 1923 Kaschkarov, 1923synonym
Rana asiatica asiatica Bedriaga, 1898 Bedriaga, 1898synonym
Rana asiatica balchaschensis Terentjev, 1923 Terentjev, 1923synonym
Rana chensinensis balchaschensis Terentjev, 1923 Terentjev, 1923synonym
Rana amurensis asiatica Bedriaga, 1898 Bedriaga, 1898synonym
Rana arvalis asiatica Bedriaga, 1898 Bedriaga, 1898synonym
Rana temporaria asiatica Bedriaga, 1898 Bedriaga, 1898synonym

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=665265 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:4RDHH. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.