Rana chensinensis

Asiatic grass frog
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Rana
Species:
R. chensinensis
Binomial name
Rana chensinensis
David, 1875[2]

The Asiatic grass frog or Chinese brown frog (Rana chensinensis) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae, found in China and Mongolia.[3]

Its natural habitats are temperate forests, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, and irrigated land. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]

This frog is noted in Chinese agriculture for its strong preying performance on pests. A study conducted in Qingyuan County during the years 1982 and 1983 found that breeding the frogs decreased both the use of pesticides and the pollution in the environment.[4]

Within China, fatty tissue close to the frog's fallopian tubes are used to make Hasma, a dessert ingredient and traditional medicine.[5]

  1. ^ a b Sergius Kuzmin, Masafumi Matsui, Zhao Wenge, Vladimir Ishchenko, Natalia Ananjeva, Nikolai Orlov (2004). "Rana chensinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T58572A11805122. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58572A11805122.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ David, Armand (1875). Journal de mon troisième voyage d'exploration dans l'empire Chinois [Diary of my third voyage of exploration in the Chinese Empire] (in French). Vol. v. 1. Paris: Hachette et cie. p. 159. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.118647.
  3. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Rana chensinensis David, 1875". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  4. ^ Li, Wenhua (2001). Agro-ecological Farming Systems in China. Taylor & Francis. pp. 195–6. ISBN 978-92-3-103784-9.
  5. ^ Deutsch, Jonathan; Murakhver, Natalya (2012). They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World. ABC-CLIO. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-313-38058-7.