Strecker's chorus frog
Strecker's chorus frog (Pseudacris streckeri) is a frog. It lives in the United States. It lives in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas, Texas, and Louisiana. Scientists think it might also live in Utah.[2][1][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Pseudacris |
| Species: | P. streckeri
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| Pseudacris streckeri (Wright and Wright, 1933)
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This is the largest frog is the genus Pseudacris. The adult can be 48 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of the back may be brown, gray, or green. It has a dark stripe from its eyes to its body. It has dark spots on its back and a white belly. The skin where the back legs meet the body is orange-yellow in color.[1]
This frog looks for food at night. During the day, it digs in the ground and hides under soil or wet leaves. Most frogs dig with their back legs, but this frog digs with its front legs.[1]
This frog is not in danger of dying out but there are fewer of them than there were. This is because human beings build things in the places where the frog lives and cut down trees for wood. However, a subspecies of this frog, Pseudacris streckeri illinoiensis, is endangered.[1]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Janel Marcelino (October 20, 2005). Kellie Whittaker (ed.). "Pseudacris streckeri: Strecker's Chorus Frog". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Pseudacris streckeri (Wright and Wright, 1933)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
- ↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2015). "Strecker's Chorus Frog: Pseudacris streckeri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55898A64942609. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-2.RLTS.T55898A64942609.en. 55898. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
