Vertebrates
Mammals
Bat Species
Mountain Beaver
Pacific Water Shrew
Townsend’s Mole
Birds
Barn Owl
Barn Swallow
Great Blue Heron, fannini subspecies
Marbled Murrelet
American Goshawk, laingi subspecies
Short-eared Owl
Western Screech-Owl, kennicottii subspecies
Amphibians
Coastal Giant Salamander
Coastal Tailed Frog
Northern Red-legged Frog
Oregon Spotted Frog
Western Toad
Reptiles
Common Sharp-tailed Snake
Painted Turtle, Pacific Coast Population
Fish
Nooksack Dace
Salish Sucker
Invertebrates
Insects
Dun Skipper
Grappletail
Johnson’s Hairstreak
Molluscs
Olympia Oyster
Oregon Forestsnail
Plants
Non-Vascular
Poor pocket moss
Vascular
Phantom orchid
Streambank lupine
Tall bugbane
Vancouver Island beggarticks
Ecological Communities
Arbutus
Coastal Douglas-fir
Coastal Sand Ecosystems
Coastal Western Hemlock

The family Ranidae (“true frogs”), has the widest distribution of any frog family. Most members of this family have smooth, moist skin, large, powerful legs and extensively webbed feet. Oregon Spotted Frog was originally grouped with its close relative, Columbia Spotted Frog, a much more common and widely distributed species, however the two distinct species were recognized in 1979. Neither species has overlapping ranges in BC. This amphibian lives in water year-round, within shallow wetlands, ditches, flooded fields, and sloughs. Considered the rarest frog in Canada, its range is limited to the Fraser Valley.

  • Egg cluster
  • Female in typical habitat
  • Amplexus

This is a species at risk. To find its current at-risk designation and listing info, visit the BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer. For direction on finding additional species recovery information, visit the Species and Ecological Communities Profiles Overview webpage.

Resources