| Southern Chorus Frog | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Pseudacris |
| Species: | P. nigrita |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudacris nigrita (LeConte, 1825) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Rana nigrita LeConte, 1825 |
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The Southern Chorus Frog (Pseudacris nigrita) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate grassland, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, open excavations, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss.