Red-legged frog (Rana aurora) COSEWIC status appraisal summary
Official title: Red-legged Frog (Rana Aurora)
Table of contents
- Assessment Summary
- Executive Summary
- COSEWIC History, Mandate, Membership and Definitions
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Sizes and Trends
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Special Significance of the Species
- Existing Protection or Other Status
- Summary of Status Report
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements and Information Sources
- Biographical Summary of the Report Writers, Authorities Contacted, and Collections Examined
COSEWIC
Assessment and Update Status Report
on the
Red-legged Frog
Rana Aurora
in Canada
Special Concern
2004
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status
of Endangered Wildlife
in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada
COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC 2004. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Red-legged Frog Rana aurora in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 46 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)
Previous Reports:
Waye, H. 1999. COSEWIC status report on the red-legged frog Rana aurora in Canada in COSEWIC assessment and status report on the red-legged frog Rana aurora in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 1-31 pp.
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Kristiina Ovaska and Lennart Sopuck for writing the status report on the Red-legged Frog Rana aurora. This report was prepared under contract with Environment Canada and was overseen and edited by David Green, the COSEWIC Amphibians and Reptiles Species Specialist Subcommittee Co-chair.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: (819) 997-4991 / (819) 953-3215
Fax: (819) 994-3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca
Ếgalement disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur la situation de Grenouille à pattes rouges (Rana aurora) au Canada -- Mise à jour.
Cover illustration:
Red-legged Frog -- Illustration by Andreé Jenks
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2004
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/340-2005E-PDF
ISBN: 0-662-39849-1
HTML: CW69-14/340-2005E-HTML
0-662-39850-5
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