Giant Visayan frog

The Giant Visayan frog (Limnonectes visayanus) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to the Philippines, and is known from Masbate, Cebu, Negros, Guimaras, Panay, and Siquijor islands.

Giant Visayan frog

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dicroglossidae
Genus: Limnonectes
Species:
L. visayanus
Binomial name
Limnonectes visayanus
(Inger, 1954)
Synonyms

Rana magna ssp. visayana Inger, 1958

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swampland, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References
  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2018. Limnonectes visayanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T41232A58476722. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T41232A58476722.en. Downloaded on 22 December 2018.


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