Animals by Scientific Class Names

Grus leucogeranus,Siberian Crane ,Siberian White Crane, Snow Crane,Siberian Crane, Nun Crane, Snow Crane

Features：It symbolizes good luck and longevity in Chinese culture and is the provincial bird of Jiangxi Province.

The Siberian Crane is a large wading bird. Although it is divided into three populations, namely the eastern, central and western populations, it is a monotypic species with no subspecies differentiation. Known as the "living fossil" of birds, there are less than 4,000 of them in the world...

Porzana paykullii,Band-bellied Crake

Features：The upper body is olive brown, the wing coverts have white horizontal stripes, and the front edge of the wings is white when flying.

Band-bellied Crake, whose foreign name is Band-bellied Crake, is a small wading bird with no subspecies.Spotted frogs migrate to Northeast China to breed in mid-to-late April in spring, and migrate away from their breeding grounds in late September and early October in autumn.Spotted frogs often liv...

Zapornia parva,Porzana parva,Little Crake

Features：Green bill, red base, dark green feet

Little Crake is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The frog often moves alone or in family groups. It is good at swimming and diving. It often swims among the reeds and water grass in the pond. Sometimes it also moves outside the reeds or on the water surface far from the shore, especially in th...

Zapornia bicolor,Black-tailed Crake,Amaurornis bicolor,Porzana bicolor,Black-tailed bittern

Features：A medium-sized frog with a distinct chestnut and almost black coloration.

The brown-backed frog is called Black-tailed Crake in foreign language, and has no subspecies.The brown-backed frog is a resident bird. It likes to move in streams with vegetation on one side and open grassland on the other side. Its living habits are very similar to those of the red-footed bittern....

Crex crex,Corncrake, Corn Crake

Features：Its long, rusty-brown wings are a distinctive feature when in flight.

The foreign name of the long-legged rail is Corncrake, Corn Crake, which is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The long-legged rail is a summer migratory bird in China. It migrates to my country in late April in spring and migrates away in October in autumn. Good at hiding, hiding in the grass o...

Coturnicops exquisitus,Swinhoes Yellow Rail

Features：It is the smallest frog in China, not a frog.

The foreign name of the Swinhoes Yellow Rail is Swinhoes Yellow Rail, and there is no subspecies.Some of the Swinhoes Yellow Rail are summer migratory birds, while others are winter migratory birds. In Northeast China, they are mostly summer migratory birds, in the east, they are winter migratory bi...

Tetrax tetrax, Little Bustard,Outarde canepetière, Sisón,Ground

Features：The neck has a white horizontal band and a "V" shaped diagonal band

Little Bustard, also known as Little Bustard in English, is a large bird of the family Bustard, with no subspecies.Little Bustards often gather in large groups during the non-breeding season, sometimes up to several thousand, and are active during the day. Male birds in the wintering group have coll...

Spotted Bustard、Chlamydotis macqueeni,Macqueen's Bustard

Features：The bustard is smaller than the larger one, and looks like a chicken, but has only three toes.

Houbara Bustard, also known as Macqueen's Bustard, has no subspecies. A large ground-dwelling bird, once a subspecies of the Ruffed-jawed Bustard, it has been reclassified as an independent species.Like other bustards, the Houbara Bustard is a bird of open and desert areas. In Xinjiang, it mainl...

Otis tarda,Great Bustard,Avutarda, Avutarda Común,Додук, Մեծ արոս, Дуадақ,Ground quail, old brocade, lone leopard, wild goose

Features：It is one of the two largest species of bustard birds (the other is the Grey-necked Bustard).

The Great Bustard has two subspecies, both of which are distributed in China. The common subspecies breeds in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, Tongyu and Zhenlai, Jilin, northwest Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia. It hibernates in Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Hubei and other provinc...

Centropus bengalensis,Lesser Coucal,Little Chicken,Little Crow Pheasant,Little Pheasant Cock,Little Wasp

Features：It looks similar to the brown-winged cuckoo, but is smaller in size and has reddish-brown or chestnut underwing feathers.

Lesser Coucal is a medium-sized bird with three subspecies.Lesser Coucal is a resident bird, often moving alone or in pairs. It is smart and secretive, and will immediately run into dense bushes or grass if it is slightly disturbed. It mainly feeds on insects and other small animals such as locusts,...

Centropus sinensis,Big hairy chicken, hairy chicken, red hairy chicken, red pheasant, wasp, green knot chicken, Luogu

Features：The whole body is black except for the wings, shoulders and inner side of the shoulders which are chestnut.

The Greater Coucal is a medium-sized bird with 6 subspecies.The Greater Coucal prefers to move alone or in pairs, rarely in groups. It usually moves on the ground, and when resting, it also perches on small branches or basks in the sun on the top of reeds, especially after rain. It is good at hiding...

Torrentophryne aspiniaYang et Rao

Features：The dorsal and ventral warts of adults have no spines or keratin granules on the top; the head, body and dorsal sides of the limbs are gray-brown or light brown-yellow, with no dark spots.

This toad lives in mountainous areas at an altitude of 1800-2100m, often living in streams and their sides. The environment is an agricultural area, where crops such as corn, peas or buckwheat are planted; the woodlands are mostly walnuts, pine forests and broad-leaved trees.There is a cluster breed...

Hoplobatrachus chinensis,Hoplobatrachus rugulosus,Water chicken, frog, green chicken, mud frog, toad

Features：Tiger frogs are large and have high economic value. Like other frogs, tiger frogs feed mainly on agricultural pests.

Tiger frogs often live in water places such as rice fields, ditches, ponds, reservoirs, swamps, etc. below 900 meters above sea level. Their habitats change with different life periods such as foraging, breeding, and wintering. In the breeding season, they mainly move in still water and shallow wate...

Limnonectes fragilis，Fragile Large-headed Frog，Big-headed frog, crispy frog

Features：Its appearance is very similar to that of the Xishuangbanna big-headed frog, with a head that is almost equal in length and width, a slightly flat head and body, and a relatively long tail.

The appearance is very similar to the Banna big-headed frog (Limnonectes bannaensis). From the geographical distribution point of view, the crispy big-headed frog is only distributed in Hainan Island, China; the Banna big-headed frog is distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi and the western edge of Guangdon...

Yerana yei,Anal thorn frog, Ye's anal frog

Features：The skin is rough and the entire back is covered with warts, and the color of the back is mostly yellow-green or brown.

Ye's anal thorn frog is also known as Ye's bulging anal frog. Adult frogs live in and around streams with fast currents. They often hide in cracks or under large rocks during the day and go ashore to look for food at night. Their food is mainly insects. The breeding season is from May to Aug...

Wuxi tree frog

Features：The body and back of the limbs are light green with light brown spots of different sizes

During the breeding season from March to June, the male frog makes a "del, del, del" sound, which is more frequent at night. When mating, the male frog holds the female frog's armpit with its forelimbs. The female frog lays eggs at the bottom of the herbaceous plants near the swamp pon...

Old Mountain Tree Frog

Features：Small body, blunt snout, protruding from lower lip, eyes wider than upper eyelid and nose, with a brown horizontal stripe between eyes

The Laoshan tree frog is commonly found in mixed forests of secondary broad-leaved trees and bamboos at an altitude of about 1,390 meters. The ground is covered with dense bushes and weeds. It is distributed in the Wanglao Mountain in Tianlin, Guangxi, my country. The Laoshan tree frog usually breed...

Romer's Tree Frog，Romer Liu tree frog

Features：The head is small and flat, with an "X"-shaped dark spot above the shoulder. The skin on the ventral side is translucent, and its internal organs can be seen through the skin.

Romer's tree frog, a species of the genus Rhacophoridae, lives near the water pits near the sea and in the nearby bushes or grass. Adult frogs prey on ants, crickets, spiders, etc. From early March to September, the frog breeds in the shallow water of still ponds, and the male frog makes a short...

Hongfo tree frog

Features：The body is relatively flat, the eardrum is obvious, and the back is green.

Hongfo tree frog is an amphibian tree frog family, with a relatively flat body, a slightly blunt snout, a nose distance slightly smaller than the eye distance, a distinct eardrum, short and sturdy forelimbs, suckers at the fingertips, deep notches on the edge of the webbed toes, a green back with sp...

Alligator sinensis ,Chinese Alligator,Alligator, Chinese alligator, earth dragon, pig dragon

Features：It is endemic to China, has a flat head, short and thick limbs, a long and laterally flattened tail, scales with more granular and banded patterns, and earth-colored eyes.

The Yangtze alligator, Alligator sinensis (Fauvel, 1879), was called tuó in ancient times, and is commonly known as "earth dragon" or "pig dragon" in the folk. It is a small crocodile unique to China and is listed as a national first-class key protected wild animal. The Yangtze...

Rafetus swinhoei，Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle；Swinhoe's softshell，Rùa Hồ Gươm，Taihu turtle, giant softshell turtle, spotted softshell turtle, and Stuart softshell turtle

Features：The head, neck and back of the limbs are also dark green with irregular yellow spots of different sizes. This dense yellow pattern is a characteristic of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle.

In ancient times, the Yangtze giant softshell turtle was widely distributed in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Taihu Lake area in China. The ancients called it the 癞头缋. Due to wanton hunting and ecological damage, no wild individuals have been found since 1972. There are only two c...