A New Locality for Rana camerani Boulenger, 1886 (Anura: Ranidae) in Turkey

Serdar Düşen, Mehmet Öz, M. Rızvan Tunç

Abstract


In this paper, we describe 12 Rana camerani collected from Fesleğen Plateau (Beydağları) in Antalya. The specimens, including their habitat characteristics and distribution, are described. This is the first report of R. camerani from Fesleğen Plateau in Antalya and therefore its distributional range is being extend to the west of Mediterranean Region in Turkey.

Keywords


distribution; Rana camerani; Turkey

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30906/1026-2296-2002-9-2-135-136

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