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Eastern Cricket Frog
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854

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

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi New Jersey New York North Carolina Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia

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 (: 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); Rattler (: Fowler, Henry W. 1907. The amphibians and reptiles of New Jersey. MacCrellish and Quigley, Trenton, N. J.. 29-250pp.); Western Cricket Frog (: Strecker, John K., Jr. 1915. Reptiles and amphibians of Texas. Baylor University Bulletin 18(4):29952); 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.); West Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus crepitans: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Common Cricket Frog (: Viosca, Percy, Jr. 1949. Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana. Louisiana Academy of Sciences Popular Science Bulletin (1):1-12); Short-legged Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus crepitans: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Northern Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus crepitans: 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); Eastern Cricket Frog (: Crother, Brian I., Jeff Boundy, Kevin de Queiroz, and Darrel R. Frost. 2001. Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico: Errata. Herpetological Review 32(3):152-153);

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
1854 Baird, Spencer F. Descriptions of new genera and species of North American frogs. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7():59–62
1938 Dunn, Emmett R. Notes on frogs of the genus Acris. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 90():153-154
1964 Boyd, Claude E. The distribution of cricket frogs in Mississipi. Herpetologica 3():201 - 202
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
1995 Smith, Hobart M., Robert T. Zappalorti, Alvin R. Breisch and Daniel L. McKinley. The type locality of the frog Acris crepitans. Herpetological Review 26(1):14
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
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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