The Japanese tree frog (Hyla japonica) is a species of tree frog belonging to the genus Hyla. The species is distributed from HokkaidÅ to Yakushima in Japan and from Korea along the Ussuri River to northeastern China, northern Mongolia and the southern Russian Far East.
Hyla japonica was formerly considered to be a subspecies of Hyla arborea (European tree frog). Animals from northern China, the Korean Peninsula, eastern Russia and Mongolia have been considered to be a separate species H. ussuriensis, which would make H. japonica an endemic to Japan.
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.
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