Chorus frog

Short description: Genus of amphibians

Chorus frog

Pseudacris ocularis, little grass frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Amphibia
Order:  | Anura
Family:  | Hylidae
Subfamily:  | Acrisinae
Genus:  | Pseudacris
Fitzinger, 1843
Synonyms

Chorophilus Baird, 1854
Helocaetes Baird, 1854
Heloecetes Baird, 1859 (misspelling
Hyliola Mocquard, 1899
Limnaoedus Mittleman & List, 1953
Parapseudacris Hardy & Burrows, 1986
Pseudacris (Pycnacris) Fouquette & Dubois, 2014

Pseudacris (commonly known as the chorus frogs) is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae found in North America ranging from the Pacific coastline to the Atlantic.

The name of the genus comes from the Greek pseudes (false) and akris (locust), probably a reference to the repeated rasping trill of most chorus frogs, which is similar to that of the insect. It could also mean ‘false Acris’, distinguishing it from another frog genus.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Taxonomy
* 2 Distribution and habitat
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Taxonomy

The species in this genus are disputed. Molecular genetic research shows little consistency due to hybridization between species, making taxonomic organization difficult.[2]

The number of species in this genus is controversial, but Frost et al. list 19 species (all shown here), and AmphibiaWeb lists 17 species (P. hypochondriaca and P. sierra are not recognized):[3][4]

Binomial name and author | Common name

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Pseudacris brachyphona (Cope, 1889) | Appalachian mountain chorus frog
Pseudacris brimleyi Brandt & Walker, 1933 | Brimley's chorus frog
Pseudacris cadaverina (Cope, 1866) | California tree frog
Pseudacris clarkii (Baird, 1854) | spotted chorus frog
Pseudacris collinsorum Ospina, Tieu, Apodaca & Lemmon, 2020 | Collinses’ mountain chorus frog
Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838) | spring peeper
Pseudacris feriarum (Baird, 1854) | upland chorus frog
Pseudacris fouquettei Lemmon et al., 2008 | Cajun chorus frog
Pseudacris hypochondriaca (Hallowell, 1854) | Baja chorus frog
Pseudacris illinoensis Smith, 1951 | Illinois chorus frog
Pseudacris kalmi Harper, 1955 | New Jersey chorus frog
Pseudacris maculata (Agassiz, 1850) | boreal chorus frog
Pseudacris nigrita (Le Conte, 1825) | southern chorus frog
Pseudacris ocularis (Bosc & Daudin, 1801) | little grass frog
Pseudacris ornata (Holbrook, 1836) | ornate chorus frog
Pseudacris regilla (Baird & Girard, 1852) | Pacific tree frog
Pseudacris sierra Wright & Wright, 1933 | Sierran chorus frog
Pseudacris streckeri (Jameson, Mackey, and Richmond, 1966) | Strecker's chorus frog
Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838) | western chorus frog or striped chorus frog

## Distribution and habitat

Chorus frogs live anywhere in North America from southern Alaska to southern Baja California, and from the Pacific to the Atlantic.[2]

## References

1. ↑ Dodd, C. Kenneth (2013). Frogs of the United States and Canada. 1. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4214-0633-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=2Hwfz9P9gS0C&pg=PR20.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Pseudacris Fitzinger, 1843 | Amphibian Species of the World". http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Acridinae/Pseudacris.
3. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Pseudacris Fitzinger, 1843". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Pseudacris. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
4. ↑ "AmphibiaWeb -- Search Results". https://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?rel-common_name=like&rel-family=equals&rel-ordr=equals&rel-intro_isocc=like&rel-description=like&rel-distribution=like&rel-life_history=like&rel-trends_and_threats=like&rel-relation_to_humans=like&rel-comments=like&rel-submittedby=like&max=200&orderbyaw=Genus+species&include_synonymies=Yes&show_photos=Yes&rel-scientific_name=contains&where-scientific_name=&rel-genus=equals&where-genus=Pseudacris&rel-species=equals&where-species=&where-common_name=&where-clade=&where-subfamily=&where-family=any&where-ordr=any&rel-isocc=occurs+in&where-isocc=&rel-species_account=matchboolean&where-species_account=&rel-declinecauses=equals&where-declinecauses=&rel-iucn=begins+with&where-iucn=&rel-cites=equals&where-cites=&where-submittedby=.

## External links

* AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Pseudacris. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 23, 2008).
* eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Pseudacris at http://www.eol.org.
* ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database Taxon Pseudacris at https://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 23, 2008).
* GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Pseudacris at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm

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