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Mountain Chorus Frog
Pseudacris brachyphona (Cope, 1889)

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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First instance(s) of published English names:
Chorus Frog (Pseudacris brachyphona: 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.); Mountain Chorus Frog (Pseudacris brachyphona: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1889 Cope, Edward D. The batrachia of North America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (34):1-525
1980 Hoffman, R. L. Pseudacris brachyphona. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (234):1–2
1995 Cocroft, R. B., and M. J. Ryan. Patterns of advertisement call evolution in toads and chorus frogs. Animal Behaviour 49():283–303
2005 Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
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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