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Frog is the common name for an amphibian from
the order Anura. There are more than 5,250 species
of frogs.
Frog Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
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Other Names:
Frog in Foreign Languages:
Afrikaans: padda
Aguaruna: kuwau
Albanian: bretkosë
Aragonese: anura
Armenian: gort
Asturian: rana
Bashkir: baqa
Basque: igel
Belarusian: žába
Bengali: byan
Bulgarian: žába
Catalan: granota
Chamicuro: kujpawa'to
Cherokee: walosi
Cyrillic: žaba
Czech: žába
Danish: frø
Darkinjung: gutat
Dutch: kikker / kikvors
Esperanto: rano
Estonian: konn
Faroese: froskur
Finnish: sammakko
French: grenouille
Georgian: baqaqi
German: Frosch
Greek: vátrachos
Hawaiian: poloka
Hawaiian Pidgin: bufo
Hebrew: tsfardea
Hungarian: béka
Icelandic: froskur
Indonesian: kodok / katak
Javanese: kodhok
Irish: frog / loscán / loscann
Italian: rana
Japanese: kaeru / kawazu / kahadzu
/ kaeru
Korean: gaeguri / meoguri
Latin: rana
Latvian: varde
Lithuanian: varle
Lower Sorbian: žaba
Luxembourg: Fräsch
Macedonian: žába
Malay: katak
Maltese: zring
Mandarin: qingwa
Mongolian: melhij
Nahuatl: cueyatl
Navajo: ch'al
Norwegian: frosk
Old English: frosc/ frocga
Persian: qurbâge
Polabian: zobo
Polish: zaba
Portuguese: rã
Potawatomi: mekchako
Romanian: broasca / brotac
Russian: ljagúška
Scots: puddock
Scottish Gaelic: losgann / muile-mhàg
Roman: žábac
Sicilian: giurana
Slovakian: žaba
Slovenian: žaba
Somali: rah
Spanish: rana
Sundanese: bangkong
Swahili: chura
Swedish: groda
Tagalog: palaka
Tajik: qurboqqa
Thai: gòp
Turkish: kurbaga
Turkmen: gurbaga
Ukrainian: žába
Upper Sorbian: žaba
Uzbek: qurbaqa
Vietnamese: ccon ngoé / con nhái
/ nhái
Welsh: broga / llyffant
West Frisian: kikkert / froask
Yiddish: zhabe, sschabe/ zhabes,
sschabess / frosh, frosch / fresh, fresch
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Size: The smallest frog is the Paedophryne
amauensis measuring only 7.7 millimeters in length.
The largest frog is the Goliath frog, with a body
measuring 13 inches, and legs that are up to 1.5
feet long. Goliath frogs can weigh up to 7 lbs.
Habitat: Frogs are found on every continent
except Antartica. Frogs live near freshwater or
in the woods, near water.
Description: Frogs have round bodies,
with long muscular hind legs and shorter front
legs. Frogs have webbed feet for swimming. Frogs
usually have green or brown skin and it they are
often spotted.
Behavior: Some frogs are aquatic, while
others are terrestrial. Terrestrial frogs are
often referred to as toads.
Diet: Tadpoles eat mainly aquatic plants
and switch to a diet of mostly insects once they
turn into frog.
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Gestation: Frogs will lay up to
20,000 eggs at a time. The eggs will hatch
in 3 to 10 days.
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Did You Know?
Frogs are are among one of the
most diverse groups of vertebrates.
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Birth: Most frog species egg's will hatch
tadpoles, which have tails and no legs. Eventually
they will develop legs and the tail will fall
off.
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