This study was executed to know the effect of three differently controlled temperature conditions on Huanren brown frog (Rana huanrensis)'s growth in 2013. We've collected nine Huanren brown frog egg's sacs on Mt. Surak (37°40'55.86"N, 127°05'19.99"E) in Seoul. We put those nine egg sacs in the controlled growth chambers under low temperature (LT, 5 ± 2℃), medium temperature (MT, 10 ± 2℃), and high temperature (HT, 13 ± 2℃) conditions with three egg sacs, respectively. We measured the eggs' hatching rate, their hatching periods, and the size of the hatched individuals. The hatching rate was higher in MT (95.6%) and the rates of the other treatments were relatively lower but very similar such as LT (82.2%) and HT (82.6%). The three hatching periods were 10 days at HT, 14 days at MT and 23 days at LT. The body sizes of the hatched individuals were biggest at MT (7.62 ± 0.11㎜), smallest at LT (6.82 ± 0.10㎜) and medium at HT (7.19 ± 0.15㎜) (P-value ≤0.0001). From our results, we found that the various water temperatures could be very effective to Huanren brown frog eggs' hatch and growth including their body sizes. We suggest if we study more about the growth of Huanren brown adult frogs under similar temperature 1) †
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