Little grass frog

species of amphibian

The little grass frog, tree frog, least tree frog, black-spotted tree frog, or little chorus frog (Pseudacris ocularis) is a frog. It lives in the southeastern United States. It lives as far north as Virginia and far south as Florida.[1][2][3]

Little grass frog
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Pseudacris
Species:
P. ocularis
Binomial name
Pseudacris ocularis
(Holbrook, 1838)
Synonyms[1]
  • Hylodes ocularis Holbrook, 1838
  • Chorophilus angulatus Cope, 1875
  • Cystignathus ocularis Cope, 1875
  • Chorophilus ocularis Cope, 1875
  • Pseudacris ocularis Stejneger and Barbour, 1917
  • Hyla ocularis Noble, 1923
  • Acris ocularis Mittleman, 1946
  • Limnaoedus ocularis Mittleman and List, 1953
  • Pseudacris ocularis Hedges, 1986
  • Pseudacris (Limnaoedus) ocularis Fouquette and Dubois, 2014

The adult frog is 11 to 20 millimetres (0.43 to 0.79 inches) long from nose to rear end. It is very small. There is some webbed skin on each foot. The toes have disks on them for climbing. This frog has a stripe on each side of its body, going over each eye.[2]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Pseudacris ocularis (Holbrook, 1838)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 April Robinson (February 5, 2001). "Pseudacris ocularis: Little Grass Frog". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  3. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Pseudacris ocularis: Southern Chorus Frog, Florida Chorus Frog". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55895A196334988. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T55895A196334988.en. 55895. Retrieved August 5, 2022.

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