Common frog: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the common frog lives – recorded in 22 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Rana temporaria
Group	Frogs & toads
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	22 countries
Continents	Europe
Diet (main food)	Tipuloidea, larva
Class	Amphibian
Order	Anura
Family	Ranidae

Where does the common frog live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the common frog in 22 countries and territories across Europe. In Russia it is listed as introduced (GRIIS checklists via GBIF).

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

What does a common frog eat?

Wikidata lists the main food source of the common frog as: Tipuloidea, larva.

Is the common frog endangered?

The common frog’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the common frog?

The common frog (Rana temporaria) is an amphibian in the order Anura and the family Ranidae, genus Rana. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the common frog

The common frog or grass frog (Rana temporaria), also known as the European common frog, European common brown frog, European grass frog, European Holarctic true frog, European pond frog, European brown frog, or simply the frog, is a semi-aquatic amphibian of the family Ranidae, found throughout much of Europe as far north as Scandinavia and as far east as the Urals, except for most of the Iberian Peninsula, southern Italy, and the southern Balkans. The farthest west it can be found is Ireland. It is also found in Asia, and eastward to Japan. The nominative, and most common, subspecies Rana temporaria temporaria is a largely terrestrial frog native to Europe. It is distributed throughout northern Europe and can be found from Ireland to as far east as Japan.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Common frog (revision 1371074037), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q27465 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).