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Image credits: ghgjgmhngbfghc There are over 7,000 frog and toad species on planet Earth, and they have been around for more than 200 million years, at least as long as the dinosaurs!. The world's ...
The pickerel frog's poisonous secretions cannot stop all creatures; green frogs, bull frogs, northern water snakes, eastern ribbon snakes, and common garter snakes are their usual predators. [22] When threatened, pickerel frogs will jump into the water and dive to the bottom to escape predators like birds and snakes.
Garter snakes are closely related to the genus Nerodia (water snakes), with some species having been moved back and forth between genera. Garter snakes have been found to be one of the few species of snakes in the world to be both venomous and poisonous; both, however, are medically insignificant to the point that even affecting a human baby ...
The tailed frogs are two species of frogs. The species are part of the genus Ascaphus, the only taxon in the family Ascaphidae / æ ˈ s k æ f ɪ d iː /. The "tail" in the name is actually an extension of the male cloaca. The tail is one of two distinctive anatomical features adapting the species to life in fast-flowing streams.
Italian tree frog, Hyla intermedia LC and: [n 1] Po's tree frog, Hyla perrini (southern Europe) [5] [6] Stripeless tree frog, Hyla meridionalis LC (southern Europe) Iberian tree frog, Hyla molleri (Iberian Peninsula, France) [2] Sardinian tree frog, Hyla sarda LC; Family: Ranidae (true frogs) Typical frogs. Common frog, Rana temporaria LC and ...
"Online Field Guide for Reptiles and Amphibians". NJDP Division of Fish & Wildlife. 2007-01-24. "Frogs and Toads of New Jersey". Association of Zoos and Wildlife. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015
Pennsylvania has 41 native species of amphibians, with 23 salamanders and newts, and 18 species of frogs and toads. Of these species, 13 are of special concern, 2 are threatened, 6 are endangered, and 1 species is extirpated.
The scientific name Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis is a combination of Ancient Greek and New Latin that means "bush snake that looks like a garter strap". The generic name Thamnophis is derived from the Greek "thamnos" (bush) and "ophis" (snake) and the specific name sirtalis is derived from the New Latin "siratalis" (like a garter), a reference to the snake's color pattern resembling a striped ...