Cricket frog
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Acris gryllus
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hylidae |
Subfamily: | Acrisinae |
Genus: | Acris Duméril & Bibron, 1841 |
Species | |
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Cricket frogs, genus Acris, are small, North American frogs of the family Hylidae.[1][2] They occur in northern Mexico (Coahuila), the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, and in southern Ontario, Canada.[1]
They are more aquatic than other members of the family, and are generally associated with permanent bodies of water with surface vegetation. This is a quite important aspect of their survival, as adult cricket frogs suffer high mortality rates when submerged in poorly oxygenated water (typically less than 24 hours on average in water that is ~1.2 mg/L).
Cricket frogs are able to communicate and attract each other using a specific frequency of their mating call, that sounds like a cricket. It can only be heard by members of the same population. Cricket frogs from other locales are unable to aurally process other calls, leading to mating isolation among the species.[4]
Species
There are three species:[1][2]
- Acris blanchardi Harper, 1947 – Blanchard's cricket frog
- Acris crepitansBaird, 1854 – northern cricket frog
- Acris gryllus(LeConte, 1825) – southern cricket frog
References
- ^ a b c d Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Acris Duméril and Bibron, 1841". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ a b "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- S2CID 104305772.
- S2CID 27475731.
- eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Acris at http://www.eol.org.
External links
Data related to Acris at Wikispecies Media related to Acris at Wikimedia Commons