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Japanese Wrinkled Frog
Glandirana rugosa (Temminck and Schlegel, 1838)

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to Japan. It was introduced as a biological control in 1876 and is established in Hawai’i (islands of Hawai'i, Kaua'i, Maui, and O'ahu) (McKeown 1996, Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Incorporated, Los Osos, California).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.09.05.08.10.44)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1838 Temminck, Coenraad J. Fauna Japonica. Volume 3 (Reptilia). Pages (xxi) + 144 in Coenraad J. Temminck and H. Schlegel. Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis, superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823-1830 collegit, notis, obfervationibu et adumbrationibus illustravit. [Fauna Japonica, or Description of animals, which he collected during a journey through Japan, under the command and auspices of the superiors who hold the supreme power in Batavian India, in the years 1823-1830, and illustrated with notes, illustrations and sketches.] Apud Auctorem [by the author], Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden, Netherlands]. pp.
2022 Meshaka, Walter E. Jr., R. Bruce Bury, Suzanne L. Collins, and Malcolm L. McCallum. Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United States. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 245pp.

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