Kampira Falls frog

Kampira Falls frog
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Genus: Nidirana
Species:
N. okinavana
Binomial name
Nidirana okinavana
(Boettger, 1895)
Synonyms
  • Rana okinavana Boettger, 1895
  • Babina okinavana (Boettger, 1895)
  • Babina psaltes (Kuramoto, 1985)
  • Hylarana psaltes (Kuramoto, 1985)
  • Nidirana psaltes (Kuramoto, 1985)
  • Rana psaltes Kuramoto, 1985

The Kampira Falls frog (Nidirana okinavana), also known as the Yaeyama harpist frog or harpist brown frog, is a species in the true frog family (Ranidae). Until recently known as Rana psaltes, it is found on Ishigaki and Iriomote in the Yaeyama Islands of Japan, as well as on Taiwan.

It is a mid-sized, stout brown frog, with a distinctive suprabrachial gland and a fold of skin running from the shoulders to the hips.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, freshwater marshes, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.