What is Rana (genus)?
{{italictitle}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Rana'' | image = Rana_aurora_6230.JPG | image_caption = [[Northern red-legged frog]] (''Rana aurora'') | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Amphibia]] | ordo = [[Frog|Anura]] | subordo = [[Neobatrachia]] | familia = [[Ranidae]] | genus = '''''Rana''''' | genus_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758 | subdivision_ranks = Subgenera | subdivision = ''[[Lithobates]]''<br /> ''Rana (subgenus)'' | synonyms = ''Lithobates''}} '''''Rana''''' is a [[genus]] of [[frog]]s. There are over 90 [[species]] of these frogs. These include the pond frogs such as the [[common frog]] which lives in [[Europe]]. The [[brown frog]], [[leopard frog]], and the [[American bullfrog]] are also included. Members of ''Rana'' can be found in [[Eurasia]], [[North American]], [[Africa]], [[Central America]], and the northern parts of [[South America]]. Species of ''Rana'' are very large in length. They have slim [[waist]]s and wrinkled [[skin]]. Most of ''Rana'' frogs do not have [[warts]] like many [[toad]]s. ''Rana'' frogs are great [[jump]]ers because of their long slender [[leg]]s. All of the ''Rana'' frogs, including most frogs, have [[webbed feet]]. This allows them to swim in water. ''Rana'' frogs are mostly green and have brown on the top. They have darker and yellowish spots on their bodies. ==Books== * Dubois, A. & Ohler, A. (1995) Frogs of the subgenus ''Pelophylax'' (Amphibia, Anura, genus ''Rana''): a catalogue of available and valid scientific names, with comments on the name-bearing types, complete synonymies. proposed common names, and maps showing all type localities. ''In:'' {{Aut|Ogielska, M. (ed.)}}: II International Symposium on Ecology and Genetics of European water frogs, 18-25 September 1994, Wroclaw, Poland. ''Zoologica Poloniae'' '''39'''(3-4): 139-204 * Frost, Darrel R. (2006): [http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference]. Version 4, 2006-AUG-17. * Hillis, D. M. & Wilcox, T. P.