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University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Checklist of Amphibian Species and an Online Identification Guide for the Identification of Amphibians in North America north of Mexico; Scientific and Common Names of the Reptiles and Amphibians of North America – Explained; The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Topographic map of Texas Seventy-two amphibian species are found in the American state of Texas , including forty-four species of frog and twenty-eight species of salamander . Four species are categorized as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature : the Barton Springs salamander , the Texas blind salamander , the black ...
Beetles of this subfamily are also known as "frog-legged beetles" or "kangaroo beetles". They are very distinctive due to their metafemora, or third pair of legs, which are distinctly larger than other femora and generally sport some type of ridge or tooth on the ventral side.
Sagrinae Leach, 1815 – frog-legged beetles or kangaroo beetles; Spilopyrinae Chapuis, 1874; Synetinae LeConte & Horn, 1883 – sometimes considered a tribe of Eumolpinae; Until recently, the subfamily Bruchinae was considered a separate family, while two former subfamilies are presently considered families (Orsodacnidae and Megalopodidae).
Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history. An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca
This list of reptiles of Texas includes the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles native to the U.S. state of Texas.. Texas has a large range of habitats, from swamps, coastal marshes and pine forests in the east, rocky hills and limestone karst in the center, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west, and grassland prairie in the north.
Non-native predators and competitors have also been found to affect the viability of frogs in their habitats. The mountain yellow-legged frog which typically inhabits the Sierra Nevada lakes have seen a decline in numbers due to stocking of non-native fish for recreational fishing. The developing tadpoles and froglets fall prey to the fish in ...
California toad [135] [145] Anaxyrus boreas halophilus: Although initially described as a distinct species from La Brea, Anaxyrus nestor was later considered to be synonymous with the California toad. Northern red-legged frog [135] [146] Rana aurora: A radioulna and a vertebra Tree frog [135] Hyla sp.