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Bullfrog: Occurs throughout most of Texas [80] LC [81] Lithobates clamitans: Green frog: Throughout eastern Texas [82] LC [82] Lithobates grylio : Pig frog: Galveston Bay and Gulf Coastal Plain to the east [83] LC [84] Lithobates palustris: Pickerel frog: Found throughout eastern Texas [85] LC [86] Lithobates sphenocephala: Southern leopard frog
The bullfrog breeding season typically lasts two to three months. [28] [29] A study of bullfrogs in Michigan showed the males arriving at the breeding site in late May or early June, and remaining in the area into July. The territorial males that occupy sites are usually spaced some 3 to 6 m (9.8 to 19.7 ft) apart and call loudly.
The Gulf Coast toad is a medium-sized toad species, ranging from 2.5 to 10.2 cm (1 to 4 in) in length. [5] Their back varies in color from nearly black, to shades of brown and grey with a distinctive white or yellowish colored stripe down the center, and sometimes lighter colored patches on the sides. Their underside is yellow or cream colored.
American bullfrog Lithobates pipiens: Northern leopard frog Lithobates sphenocephalus: Southern leopard frog * Lithobates yavapaiensis: Lowland leopard frog * Rana aurora: Northern red-legged frog Rana boylii: Foothill yellow-legged frog Rana cascadae: Cascades frog Rana draytonii: California red-legged frog Rana luteiventris: Columbia spotted ...
Pig frogs are opportunistic feeders and will eat a wide variety of prey, including insects, worms, and small vertebrates. Their primary diet is crawfish, but like most bullfrogs, they will consume almost anything they can swallow, including insects, fish, and other frogs.
The northern sheep frog (Hypopachus variolosus) is native to Central America, Mexico, and extreme south Texas, United States. [2] It occurs in the lowlands from Sonora, Mexico, to northern Costa Rica on the Pacific coast, and south Texas to Honduras on the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean coasts. The sheep frog inhabits semiarid thornscrub ...
The AFL-CIO was a major component of the New Deal Coalition that dominated politics into the mid-1960s. [9] Although it has lost membership, finances, and political clout since 1970, it remains a major player on the liberal side of national politics, with a great deal of activity in lobbying, grassroots organizing, coordinating with other liberal organizations, fund-raising, and recruiting and ...
The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL-CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio , in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor .