northern cricket frog

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northern cricket frog - a cricket frog of eastern and central United States

Acris crepitans

cricket frog - either of two frogs with a clicking call

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The northern cricket frog will be protected and its populations restored in New York State if the management plan for the amphibian released by the DEC this week is implemented and it works.

DEC releases final northern cricket frog recovery plan to restore amphibian's population

Acris crepitans (northern cricket frog) and Acris gryllus (southern cricket frog).

Visual display in Blanchard's cricket frogs (Acris blanchardi)

The species that most caught our attention was the northern cricket frog: a tiny, colorful frog that was unlike any other frog we came across.

Tiny caller--the northern cricket frog

Of special interest was the abundance of Acris crepitans (Northern Cricket Frog) and Rana pipiens (Northern Leopard Frog) at the Loblolly site.

Results of the Loblolly Marsh Wetland Preserve BioBlitz, Jay County, Indiana

Gray recorded rates of abnormalities in northern cricket frog (Acris crepitans) populations in Illinois, and found that only 0.39% of frogs collected from 1968 to 1971 were abnormal (2000).

Blanchard's cricket frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi) morphological abnormalities in southeast Michigan

Acris crepitans crepitans Baird, 1854 (Northern Cricket Frog).

New distributional records of amphibians and reptiles from Titus County, Texas

Acris crepitans blanchardi.--(Northern cricket frog).

Amphibians and reptiles of the Grand Calumet River basin

Blanchard's cricket frog is one of three subspecies of the northern cricket frog (Acris crepitans) and ranges from southern Michigan, Wisconsin, and southeastern South Dakota south through Texas, west to northern Mexico, and east to northern Tennessee.

Amphibian conservation strategies: translocating an entire population of Blanchard's cricket frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi) in Southeast Michigan