A dataset on the call characteristics of 43 anuran species in China

Calls of anuran species are generally species-specific, and understanding the call characteristic is the basis of using bioacoustics to investigate species diversity and monitor species. In this study, we summarized the call data of 43 anuran species recorded by high-fidelity recorder in the field during 2012-2020, and provided a call characteristic dataset composed of oscillogram and spectrogram of 61 calls after noise reduction processing of audio files. In addition, the data description file contained a species list and sample information. The dataset comprised a variety of temporal and spectral characteristic of calls, such as monosyllabic/polysyllabic, note number, call duration, inter-note interval, call duration, dominant frequency, fundamental frequency, and harmonics, etc., providing support for the acoustic research, species diversity survey and call monitoring of anuran species in China.