Long-legged wood frog

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| image = Rana macrocnemis, Туапсинский район, верховья Двубратского ручья (Шпичатского потока).jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Sergius Kuzmin, David Tarkhnishvili, Vladimir Ishchenko, Natalia Ananjeva, Nikolai Orlov, Boris Tuniyev, Max Sparreboom, Ismail Ugurtas, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Theodore Papenfuss, Steven Anderson, Güven Eken, Tuba Kiliç, Engin Gem, Uğur Kaya |date=2009 |title=Rana macrocnemis |volume=2009 |page=e.T58651A11820145 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T58651A11820145.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| genus = Rana

| species = macrocnemis

| authority = Boulenger, 1885

| synonyms =

  • Rana camerani
  • Rana macrocnemis ssp. camerani (Boulenger, 1886)

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The long-legged wood frog (Rana macrocnemis), also known as Caucasus frog, Brusa frog, or Uludağ frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranidae found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and Turkmenistan.

Its natural habitats are boreal forests, temperate forests, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, rocky areas, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, water storage areas, ponds, and introduced vegetation.

It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

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