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  2. Pacific tree frog - Wikipedia

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    A Pacific tree frog (green morph) sitting on a sunflower leaf stem, Nanoose Bay British Columbia. The Pacific tree frog grows up to two inches from snout to urostyle. The males are usually smaller than the females and have a dark patch on their throats. The dark patch is the vocal sac, which stretches out when the male is calling. Pacific tree ...

  3. Chorus frog - Wikipedia

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    Pseudacris (commonly known as the chorus frogs) is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae found in North America ranging from the Pacific coastline to the Atlantic.. The name of the genus comes from the Greek pseudes (false) and akris (), probably a reference to the repeated rasping trill of most chorus frogs, which is similar to that of the insect.

  4. Amphibians and reptiles of Mount Rainier National Park

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    Family: Tree Frogs Hylidae. Pacific Tree Frog (Pseudacris regilla) has a range from the West Coast of the United States (from Northern California, Oregon, and Washington) to British Columbia, in Canada. They live from sea level to more than 10,000 feet in many types of habitats, reproducing in aquatic settings. They are the only frogs that go ...

  5. Baja California chorus frog - Wikipedia

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    The Baja California chorus frog (Pseudacris hypochondriaca) is a cathemeral species of treefrog of Western North America. [1] It was formerly considered as a population of the Pacific chorus frog ( Pseudacris regilla ), but was split and raised to species status in 2006.

  6. Pseudacris sierra - Wikipedia

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    These frogs have long been known as Pacific chorus frogs Pseudacris regilla. Then, in 2006, Recuero et al. split that taxonomic concept into three species. [ 5 ] Recuero et al. attached the name Pseudacris regilla with the northern piece, renaming the central piece the Sierran tree frog ( Pseudacris sierra ) and the southern piece the Baja ...

  7. Frog - Wikipedia

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    This diagram, in the form of a tree, shows how each frog family is related to other families, with each node representing a point of common ancestry. It is based on Frost et al. (2006), [ 44 ] Heinicke et al. (2009) [ 45 ] and Pyron and Wiens (2011).

  8. Hylidae - Wikipedia

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    Hylidae is a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as "tree frogs and their allies". However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semiaquatic.

  9. Decline in amphibian populations - Wikipedia

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    These abnormalities increase frog predation by aquatic birds, the final host of the trematode. Pacific tree frog with limb malformation induced by Ribeiroia ondatrae. A study showed that high levels of nutrients used in farming and ranching activities fuel parasite infections that have caused frog deformities in ponds and lakes across North ...