Cricket frog

For the Asian species called "Cricket Frog", see Fejervarya limnocharis.

Cricket frogs

Acris gryllus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Genus:	Acris Duméril & Bibron, 1841
Species
Acris blanchardi Acris crepitans Acris gryllus

Cricket frogs, genus Acris, are small, North American frogs of the family Hylidae. They are more aquatic than other members of the family and are generally associated with permanent bodies of water with surface vegetation. The common and scientific names refer to their call, which resembles that of a cricket.

Species

Binomial Name and Author	Common Name
Acris blanchardi (Harper, 1947)	Blanchard's Cricket Frog
Acris crepitans (Baird, 1854)	Northern Cricket Frog
Acris gryllus (LeConte, 1825)	Southern Cricket Frog

Notes

Frost, Darrel R. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October, 2007). Acris. Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: Apr 21, 2008).
AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Acris. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 21, 2008).
eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Acris at http://www.eol.org.

External links

Data related to Acris at Wikispecies
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Acris Acris] at Wikimedia Commons