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Blanchard's Cricket Frog
Acris blanchardi Harper, 1947

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
Canada: Ontario
USA: Arkansas Colorado Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska New Mexico Ohio Oklahoma South Dakota Texas West Virginia Wisconsin

First instance(s) of published English names:
Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus var. crepitans: Jordan, David Starr. 1876. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species. Jansen, McClurg, and Company, Chicago, Illinois.. 342pp.); Western Cricket (Acris gryllus crepitans: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Northern Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus crepitans: Davis, N. S., and Frank L. Rice. 1883. List of Batrachia and Reptilia of Illinois. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 1(3):25–32); Western Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus crepitans: Beyer, George. 1900. Louisana herpetology. Proceedings of the Louisiana Society of Naturalists 1897-1899():24-46); Savannah Cricket (Acris gryllus: Hurter, Julius. 1911. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274); Cricket-frog (Acris gryllus: Stejneger, Leonhard H. and Thomas Barbour. 1917. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp.); Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus blanchardi: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Texas Coast Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus paludicola: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Coastal Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus paludicola: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185); Blanchard Cricket Frog (: Stebbins, Robert C. 1985. Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians. 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts. pp.); Blanchard’s Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans: Frost, Darrel R., Roy W. McDiarmid, Joseph R. Mendelson III, and David M. Green. 2012. Anura - Frogs. Pages 11-22 in Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Herpetological Circular No. 39. pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
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USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1938 Dunn, Emmett R. Notes on frogs of the genus Acris. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 90():153-154
1947 Harper, Francis. A new cricket frog (Acris) from the middle western states. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (60):39-40
1964 Boyd, Claude E. The distribution of cricket frogs in Mississipi. Herpetologica 3():201 - 202
1964 Mecham, John S. Ecological and genetic relationships of the two cricket frogs, genus Acris, in Alabama. Herpetologica 20(2):84-91
1969 Dessauer, Herbert C. and E. Nevo. Geographic variation of blood and liver proteins in Cricket Frogs. Biochemical Genetics 3():171-188
1985 Nevo, E., and R. R. Capranica. Evolutionary origin of ethological reproductive isolation in cricket frogs, Acris. Evolutionary Biology 10():147-214
1986 Gorman, Wendy L. Patterns of color polymorphism in the Cricket Frog, Acris crepitans, in Kansas. Copeia 1986(4):995-999
1987 Gorman, Wendy L. and Michael S. Gaines. Patterns of genetic variation in the Cricket Frog, Acris crepitans, in Kansas. Copeia 1987(2):352-360
1999 Hammerson, Geoffrey A. and Lauren J. Livo. Conservation status of the northern cricket frog (Acris crepitans) in Colorado and adjacent areas at the northwestern extent of the range. Herpetological Review 30(2):78-80
2003 Smith, Geoffrey R., Adam Todd, Jessica E. Rettig, and Frank Nelson. Microhabitat selection by northern cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) along a west-central Missouri creek: Field and experimental observations. Journal of Herpetology 37(2):383-385
2005 Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
2005 Faivovich, J., C. F. B. Haddad, P. C. de A. Garcia, D. R. Frost, J. A. Campbell, and W. C. Wheeler. Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: A phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (294):1–240
2006 McCallum, Malcolm L., and Stanley E. Trauth. An evaluation of the subspecies Acris crepitans blanchardi (Anura, Hylidae). Zootaxa (1104):1-21
2008 Gamble, Tony, Peter B. Berendzen, H. Bradley Shaffer, David E. Starkey, and Andrew Simons. Species limits and phylogeography of North American cricket frogs (Acris: Hylidae) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48():112-125
2009 Beauclerc, Kaela B. Phylogeography and conservation genetics of two endangered amphibians, Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi) and the Puerto Rican Crested Toad (Peltophryne lemur). Thesis. Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.. 213pp.
2013 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 982pp.
2023 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.

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