Chorus frog

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iChorus Frogs
Little Grass Frog, Pseudacris ocularis
Little Grass Frog, Pseudacris ocularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Pseudacris
Fitzinger, 1843

The chorus frogs (Pseudacris) are a genus of frogs in the Hylidae family, and are found in North America east of the Rocky Mountains from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.

The name of the genus comes from the Greek pseudes (false) and akris (locust), probably a reference to the repeated rasping trill of most chorus frogs, which is similar to that of the insect.

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