Japanese Tree Frog
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The Japanese tree frog is a species
of tree frog
belonging to the genus
Hyla
. The species is distributed from Hokkaidō
to Yakushima
in Japan
and from Korea
along the Ussuri River
to northeastern China.
The journalist Toyohiro Akiyama
carried some Japanese tree frogs with him during his trip to the Mir
space station
in December 1990.
These tree frogs are commonly found in rice paddies and rest during the day on rice leaves and other broad leaved vegetation. during the early evening they are active and go to lights to catch bugs that are attracted to the lights.
They can be found by visiting rice paddies and by looking near lights at night. You can also track them down by following their mating call which sounds like a duck. Their mating call is a quickly repeated loud 'QUACK' or 'QUOCK' or 'QUECK'. Colouring is highly variable.
These frogs can do well in captivity and are fun to keep. They have to have adequate space in their vivarium and will do well in a wide,long,and high tank. Put grass on the floor of the tank(but make sure there is no insecticide on it) and put some broad leafed plants in the tank too. Provide a shallow wide water dish so that the frogs don't dry out and spray the tank every morning to imitate morning dew.
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of tree frog
Tree frog
Hylidae is a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as "tree frogs and their allies". However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semi-aquatic.-Characteristics:...
belonging to the genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Hyla
Hyla
The genus Hyla is one of approximately 38 genera in the New World family of tree frogs . The word Hyla translates to "tree," and tree frogs are indeed arboreal...
. The species is distributed from Hokkaidō
Hokkaido
, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island; it is also the largest and northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectural-level subdivisions. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu, although the two islands are connected by the underwater railway Seikan Tunnel...
to Yakushima
Yakushima
, one of the Ōsumi Islands, is an island of about 500 km² and roughly 15,000 islanders to the south of Kyūshū in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The Vincennes Strait separates it from Tanegashima. The highest point on the island is Miyanoura-dake at 1,935 metres...
in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and from Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
along the Ussuri River
Ussuri River
The Usuri ula is a river in the south of the Outer Manchuria and east of Inner Manchuria . It rises in the Sikhote-Alin range, flowing north, forming part of the Sino-Russian border based on the Sino-Russian Convention of Peking in 1860, until it joins the Amur River at Khabarovsk . It is...
to northeastern China.
The journalist Toyohiro Akiyama
Toyohiro Akiyama
is a Japanese TV journalist best known for his flight to the Mir space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 1990. Akiyama is the first person of Japanese descent to have flown in space. He was known as the "Space Journalist" in Japan....
carried some Japanese tree frogs with him during his trip to the Mir
Mir
Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the...
space station
Space station
A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing...
in December 1990.
These tree frogs are commonly found in rice paddies and rest during the day on rice leaves and other broad leaved vegetation. during the early evening they are active and go to lights to catch bugs that are attracted to the lights.
They can be found by visiting rice paddies and by looking near lights at night. You can also track them down by following their mating call which sounds like a duck. Their mating call is a quickly repeated loud 'QUACK' or 'QUOCK' or 'QUECK'. Colouring is highly variable.
These frogs can do well in captivity and are fun to keep. They have to have adequate space in their vivarium and will do well in a wide,long,and high tank. Put grass on the floor of the tank(but make sure there is no insecticide on it) and put some broad leafed plants in the tank too. Provide a shallow wide water dish so that the frogs don't dry out and spray the tank every morning to imitate morning dew.