Common frog
Scientific name: Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758
Overview
The common frog or grass frog, 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.
From the Wikipedia article “Common frog”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Where it lives
Common names
Also known in English as European Common Frog, European frog.
Names in other languages (10)
- Arabic
- ضفدع شائع
- Chinese
- 林蛙
- French
- Grenouille rousse
- German
- Grasfrosch
- Indonesian
- Katak biasa
- Japanese
- ヨーロッパアカガエル
- Persian
- قورباغه معمولی
- Russian
- травяная лягушка
- Spanish
- Rana Bermeja
- Turkish
- Bayağı kurbağa
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q27465, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Common frog”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Richard Bartz, Munich aka Makro Freak Image:MFB.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
- Range map — Osado, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026