Northeast Rain Frog

Northeast Rain Frog

The Northeast Rain Frog (scientific name: Hyla japonica) is a species of amphibian in the Rain Frog family. Distributed in Hokkaido and Yakushima in Japan, as well as along the Heilongjiang River in North Korea and Northeast China, including Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, and Inner Mongolia. The type locality of this species is in Japan. In 1990, Japanese astronaut Toyohiro Akiyama brought some Northeastern rain frogs to the Soviet Union's Mir space station.