Moor frog, the Glossary
The moor frog (Rana arvalis) is a slim, reddish-brown, semiaquatic amphibian native to Europe and Asia.[1]
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- Amphibians described in 1842
- Amphibians of Russia
- Taxa named by Sven Nilsson
Agile frog
The agile frog (Rana dalmatina) is a European frog in the genus ''Rana'' of the true frog family, Ranidae. Moor frog and agile frog are amphibians of Europe and rana (genus).
Altai Mountains
The Altai Mountains, also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central Asia and Eastern Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters.
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Altitude
Altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object.
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.
Amplexus
Amplexus (Latin "embrace") is a type of mating behavior exhibited by some externally fertilizing species (chiefly amphibians and horseshoe crabs) in which a male grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process, and at the same time or with some time delay, he fertilizes the eggs, as they are released from the female's body.
Anatomical terms of motion
Motion, the process of movement, is described using specific anatomical terms.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
Antifreeze protein
Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) or ice structuring proteins refer to a class of polypeptides produced by certain animals, plants, fungi and bacteria that permit their survival in temperatures below the freezing point of water.
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Antioxidant
Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation (usually occurring as autoxidation), a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals.
Arachnid
Arachnids are arthropods in the class Arachnida of the subphylum Chelicerata.
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.
Balkans
The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.
Beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Holometabola.
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
Bog
A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Босна и Херцеговина), sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula.
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Bushland
In Australia, bushland is a blanket term for land which supports remnant vegetation or land which is disturbed but still retains a predominance of the original floristics and structure.
Cellular respiration
Cellular respiration is the process by which biological fuels are oxidized in the presence of an inorganic electron acceptor, such as oxygen, to drive the bulk production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which contains energy.
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Celtic Reptile & Amphibian
Celtic Rewilding, formally known as Celtic Reptile & Amphibian, is a conservation company, established in 2020, by Harvey Tweats and Tom Whitehurst, with the initial aim of reintroducing extinct reptiles and amphibians back to rewilding projects within the UK.
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Central Europe
Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.
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Chaparral
Chaparral is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, in southern Oregon and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.
Chibanian
The Chibanian, more widely known as Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), is an age in the international geologic timescale or a stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period.
Chytridiomycosis
Chytridiomycosis is an infectious disease in amphibians, caused by the chytrid fungi Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans.
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Common frog
The common frog or grass frog (Rana temporaria), also known as the European common frog, European common brown frog, European grass frog, European Holarctic true frog, European pond frog or European brown frog, is a semi-aquatic amphibian of the family Ranidae, found throughout much of Europe as far north as Scandinavia and as far east as the Urals, except for most of the Iberian Peninsula, southern Italy, and the southern Balkans. Moor frog and common frog are amphibians of Europe, Arctic land animals and rana (genus).
Cortisol
Cortisol is a steroid hormone in the glucocorticoid class of hormones and a stress hormone.
Cryoprotectant
A cryoprotectant is a substance used to protect biological tissue from freezing damage (i.e. that due to ice formation).
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Cyst
A cyst is a closed sac, having a distinct envelope and division compared with the nearby tissue.
Decomposition
Decomposition or rot is the process by which dead organic substances are broken down into simpler organic or inorganic matter such as carbon dioxide, water, simple sugars and mineral salts.
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Deprotonation
Deprotonation (or dehydronation) is the removal (transfer) of a proton (or hydron, or hydrogen cation), (H+) from a Brønsted–Lowry acid in an acid–base reaction.
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Divisions of the Carpathians
Divisions of the Carpathians are a categorization of the Carpathian mountains system.
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Dvorníky-Včeláre
Dvorníky-Včeláre (Szádudvarnok-Méhész) is a village and municipality in Košice-okolie District in the Kosice Region of eastern Slovakia.
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Early Pleistocene
The Early Pleistocene is an unofficial sub-epoch in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, representing the earliest division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period.
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Edge effects
In ecology, edge effects are changes in population or community structures that occur at the boundary of two or more habitats.
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Egg
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.
Embryo
An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism.
Ethanol
Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula.
Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Eutrophication
Eutrophication is a general term describing a process in which nutrients accumulate in a body of water, resulting in an increased growth of microorganisms that may deplete the oxygen of water.
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Fecundity
Fecundity is defined in two ways; in human demography, it is the potential for reproduction of a recorded population as opposed to a sole organism, while in population biology, it is considered similar to fertility, the natural capability to produce offspring, measured by the number of gametes (eggs), seed set, or asexual propagules.
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
Fly
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wing".
Forest
A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.
Forest steppe
A forest steppe is a temperate-climate ecotone and habitat type composed of grassland interspersed with areas of woodland or forest.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Freshwater acidification
Freshwater acidification occurs when acidic inputs enter a body of fresh water through the weathering of rocks, invasion of acidifying gas (e.g. carbon dioxide), or by the reduction of acid anions, like sulfate and nitrate within a lake.
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Gas exchange
Gas exchange is the physical process by which gases move passively by diffusion across a surface.
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Gastropoda
Gastropods, commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda.
Gene flow
In population genetics, gene flow (also known as migration and allele flow) is the transfer of genetic material from one population to another.
Glade (geography)
In the most general sense, a glade or clearing is an open area within a forest.
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Gluconeogenesis
Gluconeogenesis (GNG) is a metabolic pathway that results in the biosynthesis of glucose from certain non-carbohydrate carbon substrates.
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Glucose
Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula.
Glycan
The terms glycans and polysaccharides are defined by IUPAC as synonyms meaning "compounds consisting of a large number of monosaccharides linked glycosidically".
Glycerol
Glycerol, also called glycerine or glycerin, is a simple triol compound.
Glycogen
Glycogen is a multibranched polysaccharide of glucose that serves as a form of energy storage in animals, fungi, and bacteria.
Glycolysis
Glycolysis is the metabolic pathway that converts glucose into pyruvate and, in most organisms, occurs in the liquid part of cells (the cytosol).
Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
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Hazard
A hazard is a potential source of harm.
Height above mean sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.
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Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
Hibernation
Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species.
Hydrophile
A hydrophile is a molecule or other molecular entity that is attracted to water molecules and tends to be dissolved by water.
Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.
Inbreeding depression
Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness that has the potential to result from inbreeding (the breeding of related individuals).
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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IUCN Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.
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Karasuk, Novosibirsk Oblast
Karasuk (Карасу́к; Қарасуық, Qarasuyq) is a town and the administrative center of Karasuksky District in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Karasuk River west of Novosibirsk, the administrative center of the oblast.
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Lactic acid
Lactic acid is an organic acid.
Larva
A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.
Late Pleistocene
The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective.
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Least-concern species
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild.
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Lena (river)
The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East, and is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Yenisey). The Lena is the eleventh-longest river in the world, and the longest river entirely within Russia, with a length of and a drainage basin of.
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Liming (soil)
Liming is the application of calcium- (Ca) and magnesium (Mg)-rich materials in various forms, including marl, chalk, limestone, burnt lime or hydrated lime to soil.
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Littoral zone
The littoral zone, also called litoral or nearshore, is the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore.
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Maltitol
Maltitol is a sugar alcohol (a polyol) used as a sugar substitute and laxative.
Maltose
Maltose, also known as maltobiose or malt sugar, is a disaccharide formed from two units of glucose joined with an α(1→4) bond. In the isomer isomaltose, the two glucose molecules are joined with an α(1→6) bond. Maltose is the two-unit member of the amylose homologous series, the key structural motif of starch.
Mannose
Mannose is a sugar monomer of the aldohexose series of carbohydrates.
Maramureș
Maramureș (Maramureș; Marmaroshchyna; Máramaros) is a geographical, historical and cultural region in northern Romania and western Ukraine.
Mate choice
Mate choice is one of the primary mechanisms under which evolution can occur.
Melting
Melting, or fusion, is a physical process that results in the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid.
Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Multi-male group
Basic requirements of individual primates include obtaining food, avoiding predators, and reproducing.
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Myriapoda
Myriapods are the members of subphylum Myriapoda, containing arthropods such as millipedes and centipedes.
Nematode
The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia.
Nuptial pad
A nuptial pad (also known as thumb pad, or nuptial excrescence) is a secondary sex characteristic present on some mature male frogs and salamanders.
Ocean acidification
Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's ocean.
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Omnivore
An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.
Overwintering
Overwintering is the process by which some organisms pass through or wait out the winter season, or pass through that period of the year when "winter" conditions (cold or sub-zero temperatures, ice, snow, limited food supplies) make normal activity or even survival difficult or near impossible.
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Oxidative stress
Oxidative stress reflects an imbalance between the systemic manifestation of reactive oxygen species and a biological system's ability to readily detoxify the reactive intermediates or to repair the resulting damage.
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Pannonian Basin
The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large sedimentary basin situated in southeast Central Europe.
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Parasitic worm
Parasitic worms, also known as helminths, are large macroparasites; adults can generally be seen with the naked eye.
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Phenotypic plasticity
Phenotypic plasticity refers to some of the changes in an organism's behavior, morphology and physiology in response to a unique environment.
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Plain
In geography, a plain, commonly known as flatland, is a flat expanse of land that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless.
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
Polyandry in animals
In behavioral ecology, polyandry is a class of mating system where one female mates with several males in a breeding season.
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Polymelia
Polymelia is a birth defect in which an affected individual has more than the usual number of limbs.
Polymer
A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.
Protonation
In chemistry, protonation (or hydronation) is the adding of a proton (or hydron, or hydrogen cation), usually denoted by H+, to an atom, molecule, or ion, forming a conjugate acid.
Rewilding
Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration aimed at increasing biodiversity and restoring natural processes.
Riparian zone
A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
Semiaquatic
In biology, being semi-aquatic refers to various macroorganisms that live regularly in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
September
September is the ninth month of the year in both the Gregorian calendar and the less commonly used Julian calendar.
Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Spawn (biology)
Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals.
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Steppe
In physical geography, a steppe is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes.
Supercooling
Supercooling, also known as undercooling, is the process of lowering the temperature of a liquid below its freezing point without it becoming a solid.
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Sven Nilsson (zoologist)
Sven Nilsson (8 March 1787 – 30 November 1883) was a Swedish zoologist and archaeologist.
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Swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.
Taiga
Taiga (p), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches.
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g.
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Tisza
The Tisza, Tysa or Tisa, is one of the major rivers of Central and Eastern Europe. It was once called "the most Hungarian river" because it used to flow entirely within the Kingdom of Hungary. Today, it crosses several national borders. The Tisza begins near Rakhiv in Ukraine, at the confluence of the and, which is at coordinates (the former springs in the Chornohora mountains; the latter in the Gorgany range).
Transylvania
Transylvania (Transilvania or Ardeal; Erdély; Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien, historically Überwald, also Siweberjen in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania.
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Transylvanian Plateau
The Transylvanian Plateau (Podișul Transilvaniei; Erdélyi-medence) is a plateau in central Romania.
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True frog
True frogs is the common name for the frog family Ranidae.
Tundra
In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.
Vocal sac
The vocal sac is the flexible membrane of skin possessed by most male frogs and toads.
Western Moldavia
Western Moldavia (Moldova Occidentală, Moldova de Apus, Moldova de Vest), also called Romanian Moldavia, or simply just Moldova is the core historic and geographical part of the former Principality of Moldavia situated in eastern and north-eastern Romania. Until its union with Wallachia in 1859, the Principality of Moldavia also included, at various times in its history, the regions of Bessarabia (with the Budjak), all of Bukovina, and Hertsa; the larger part of the former is nowadays the independent state of Moldova, while the rest of it, the northern part of Bukovina, and Hertsa form territories of Ukraine.
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69th parallel north
The 69th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 69 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic.
See Moor frog and 69th parallel north
See also
Amphibians described in 1842
- Asiatic toad
- Desert tree frog
- Marbled reed frog
- Mongolian toad
- Moor frog
- Northern dwarf tree frog
- Ornate burrowing frog
- Plaintive rain frog
- Poyntonophrynus vertebralis
- Ranoidea australis
- Southeastern dwarf salamander
- Spotted snout-burrower
- Striped rocket frog
Amphibians of Russia
- Asiatic toad
- Bufotes pewzowi
- Caucasian smooth newt
- Dybowski's frog
- Hyla orientalis
- Japanese tree frog
- List of amphibians of Russia
- Mongolian toad
- Moor frog
- Ommatotriton ophryticus
- Onychodactylus fischeri
- Oriental fire-bellied toad
- Pelophylax nigromaculatus
- Rana amurensis
- Salamandrella keyserlingii
Taxa named by Sven Nilsson
- Carassius
- Lesser pipefish
- Moor frog
- Pollock
- Trisopterus esmarkii
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moor_frog
Also known as Rana arvalis.
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