# Moore's frog

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{{Short description|Species of amphibian}}
{{for|the frog found in Southwest Australia|Western green and golden bell frog}}
{{Speciesbox
| status = VU 
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 16 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |date=2020 |title=''Lithobates johni'' |volume=2020 |article-number=e.T58628A53970752 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T58628A53970752.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Lithobates johni
| authority = Frost, 2006
| synonyms = 
* ''Rana moorei'' <small>Blair, 1947 (preoccupied)</small>
* ''Rana johni'' <small>Blair, 1965</small>
}}

'''Moore's frog''' ('''''Lithobates johni''''') is a [species](/source/species) of [frog](/source/frog) in the [true frog](/source/Ranidae) [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) (Ranidae). It is [endemic](/source/endemic) to the [Sierra Madre Oriental](/source/Sierra_Madre_Oriental) of [Mexico](/source/Mexico).

Its natural [habitat](/source/habitat)s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland [forest](/source/forest)s, subtropical or tropical moist [montane forest](/source/montane_forest)s, and [river](/source/river)s. It is threatened by [habitat loss](/source/habitat_loss).

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* {{cite journal | author = Blair Albert P | year = 1965 | title = ''Rana johni'', Substitute Name for the Frog ''Rana moorei'' Blair | journal = [Copeia](/source/Copeia) | volume = 1965 | issue = 4| page = 517 | doi = 10.2307/1441009 | jstor = 1441009 }}
* {{cite journal | author = Hillis D.M., Frost J.S., Webb R.G. | year = 1984 | title = A new species of frog of the ''Rana tarahumarae'' group from southwestern Mexico | journal = [Copeia](/source/Copeia) | volume = 1984 | issue = 2| pages = 398–403 | doi = 10.2307/1445197 | jstor = 1445197 }}
* {{cite journal | author = Hillis D.M., Wilcox T.P. | year = 2005 | title = Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (''Rana'') | journal = [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.](/source/Molecular_Phylogenetics_and_Evolution) | volume = 34 | issue = 2| pages = 299–314 | doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.007 | pmid = 15619443 }}
* {{cite journal | author = Hillis D. M. | year = 2007 | title = Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life | journal = [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.](/source/Molecular_Phylogenetics_and_Evolution) | volume = 42 | issue = 2| pages = 331–338 | doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.001 | pmid = 16997582 }}

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Category:Lithobates
Category:Endemic amphibians of Mexico
Category:Fauna of the Sierra Madre Oriental
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Category:Amphibians described in 2006

{{Ranidae-stub}}

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