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The northern leopard frog is a fairly large species of frog, reaching about 11 cm (4.3 in) in snout-to-vent length. It varies from green to brown in dorsal color, with large, dark, circular spots on its back, sides, and legs. [7] Each spot is normally bordered by a lighter ring. A pair of dorsolateral folds starting from the back of the eye ...
Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides, also known as the Rio Grande chirping frog, Mexican chirping frog, or lowland chirping frog, is a small eleutherodactylid frog. [2][3][4] It is found from the southern United States in Texas, and in the northeastern Mexico in the states of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, and Veracruz. [2][3 ...
Leopard frog is a generic name used to refer to various species in the true frog genus Lithobates. They all have similar coloration: brown or green with spots that form a leopard pattern. They are distinguished by their distribution and behavioral, morphological, and genetic differences. The range of the various species of leopard frogs extends ...
Coquí is a common name for several species of small frogs in the genus Eleutherodactylus native to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. They are onomatopoeically named for the very loud mating call which the males of two species, the common coqui and the upland coqui, make at night. The coquí is one of the most common frogs in Puerto Rico ...
In central Madagascar, a “soft chirp-like” sound competed for attention in the noisy forest. The sound came from a silvery creature hiding in a spiky plant. When scientists tracked down the ...
Syrrhophus marnockii Cope, 1878. Hylodes marnockii (Cope, 1878) Eleutherodactylus marnockii, the cliff chirping frog, is a small eleutherodactylid frog found in Central and West Texas, United States, [1][2][3] and in Coahuila and Chihuahua, northern Mexico. [1] It is also known as the cliff frog and Marnock's frog. [2]
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Frogs in culture. Frog and Mouse by Getsuju, a Japanese artist of the Edo period. Frogs play a variety of roles in culture, appearing in folklore and fairy tales such as the Brothers Grimm story of The Frog Prince. In ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, frogs symbolized fertility, while in classical antiquity, the Greeks and Romans associated frogs ...