American Toad American Toad American Toad American Toad This was one of the first amphibians I had ever seen as a child. Many large toads would come out and sit on a large wall near our house to eat bugs on muggy nights. It was this toad, the all American Toad, Bufo americanus. The Genus was changed to Anaxyrus in 2006...
Male Spadefoot Toad, Saratoga Springs, NY Classic Diverging Yellow Lines on the Back, Male Male Attempting Amplexus, with ?Eggs from Other Females Clinging to his Back Snout of a Female, Showing Glandular Area Upclose of Eggs that Appear to be Deposited in Sheets Eggs Upclose, One Appears to be Attacked by a Fungus The photos...
Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica, Glandular area at end of dorso-lateral fold Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica, skin of leg torn off (de-gloving) by car-hit Well, semi-skunked for the night in that there wasn’t...
The Relaxed Peeper This is a sweet shot because the frog, a Spring Peeper (now known as Pseudacris crucifer= cross, for the X on its back), is sitting in a rather relaxed amphibian pose. I remember the night, because the ground was covered in wood frogs, and I was having trouble telling where the peepers were, since there were...
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The Famous Red Eyed Tree Frog The Famous Red Eyed Tree Frog The Famous Red Eyed Tree Frog The Famous Red Eyed Tree Frog The Famous Red Eyed Tree Frog This red eye tree frog, Agalychnis callydris, from Central and Northern S.A., most likely a mature male, was raised here from just out of the tadpole stage. I keep a few animals,...
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The Rocket Frog- a Dart Frog The Rocket Frog- a Dart Frog While walking the streams in Matapalo, Osa, Costa Rica, it took me a while to hone in on the images of little well camoflauged frogs peeping and hopping beneath my feet, in low light. Michael Boston our guide, kept saying there’s one, and I couldn’t see anything!...
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A Nosey Red Eye Tree Frog It was terrarium cleaning time for my captive bred and raised Red Eyed Tree frogs, Agalychnis callidryas. Tree frogs will just jump, not really knowing where they’ll land. A face is just as good as a branch- and this has happened many times. But the camera was there, right on the side of...
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Wood Frog (big), Peeper (small) in Snow, March 2010 Spring Peeper Adult Spring Peepers, now Pseudocris crucifer, I still like to call them by their old (not that old) names HYLA crucifer (species = cross/X marking). Researchers, scientists- as they do their genetic/cladistic work on anurans- find out sometimes that old...
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Gray Tree Frog, New metamorph Gray Tree Frog, New metamorph, tail gone Adult Gray Tree Frog Gray Tree Frogs could be one of two frogs, the nominate form- “Gray Tree,” and a triploid form with a different trill call- Copes Gray Tree Frog, Hyla chrysoscelis. While they do co-occur in some habitats together, I believe...
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Striped Lip Disc Toe Frog Another frog almost certainly an Eleuthrodactylid. This was a stream frog, and was backed up into a rock crevice. But note the enlarged discs on the toes- tree frog like, but a bit more robust and not as suctorial (sticking). So, never knew what it was. Gorgeous frog nonetheless, and I’ve...
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