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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-one 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.
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.
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
The sheep frog is a small, stout frog with short legs, ranging about 2.5-3.8 cm, with females growing larger than the males. The dorsal color ranges from tan, to reddish-tan, to various shades of brown with irregular black flecks or spots, which may be extensive on some individuals, or absent on others.
After 2009, the severe drought conditions continued to get worse and occurred throughout the central Texas region, where the Houston toad population resides. It was calculated that during peak breeding season in March 2011, central Texas received under .10 inches (2.5 mm) of rain making it the fourth driest March since 1856.
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 ...