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Boreal Chorus Frog
Pseudacris maculata (Agassiz, 1850)

SSAR 9th Edition 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: Alberta British Columbia Manitoba Northwest Territories Nunavut Ontario Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon
USA: Arizona Arkansas Colorado Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska New Mexico New York North Dakota Oklahoma South Dakota Utah Vermont Wisconsin Wyoming

First instance(s) of published English names:
Tree frog (Chorophilus triseriatus triseriatus: 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); Tree Frog (Chorophilus triseriatus triseriatus: 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); Three-striped Tree Frog (Chorophilus triseriatus: Hurter, Julius. 1911. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274); Swamp Whistler (Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis: 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.); Northern Pseudacris (Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis: 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.); Northern Striped Tree Frog (Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis: 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.); Spotted Tree Frog (Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis: 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.); Northern Chorophilus (Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis: 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.); Northern Spring Peeper (Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis: 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.); Peeper Frog (Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis: 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.); Swamp Cricket Frog (Pseudacris nigrita triseriata: Brennan, Lawrence A. 1934. A check list of the amphibians and reptiles of Ellis County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 37():189-191); Swamp Cricket Frog (Pseudacris triseriata: Smith, Hobart M. 1934. The Amphibians of Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 15(4):377-527); Boreal Chorus Frog (Pseudacris nigrita septentrionalis: 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
  
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USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1850 Agassiz, L. Lake Superior, its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared with Those of Other and Similar Regions, with a Narrative of the Tour, by J. Elliot Cabot, and Contributions by Other Scientific Gentlemen. Part. II. Natural History. Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, Boston. pp.
1923 Noble, G. Kingsley. The generic and genetic relations of Pseudacris, the swamp tree frogs. American Museum Novitates (70):1-6
1949 Gugler, Carl W. A study of the chromosomes of Pseudacris nigrita triseriata (Wied). Thesis. Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. 18pp.
1956 Smith, Philip W. The status, correct name, and geographic range of the Boreal Chorus Frog. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 69:169-176
1989 Platz, James E. Speciation within the Chorus Frog Pseudacris triseriata: Morphometric and mating call analyses of the boreal and western subspecies. Copeia 1989(3):704-712
2004 Moriarty, Emily C. and David C. Cannatella. Phylogenetic relationships of the North American Chorus Frogs (Pseudacris: Hylidae) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30:409-420
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
2007 Moriarty-Lemmon, Emily. Patterns and Processes of Speciation in North American Chorus Frogs (Pseudacris). Dissertation. University of Texas, Austin. 304pp.
2007 Lemmon, Emily M., Alan R. Lemmon, Joseph T. Collins, J.A. Leeyaw, and David C. Cannatella. Phylogeny based delimitation of species boundaries and contact zones in the trilling chorus frogs (Pseudacris). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44:1068-1082
2014 Green, David M., Linda A. Weir, Gary S. Casper, and Michael Lannoo (Editors) North American amphibians: Distribution and diversity. University of California Press, Berkeley. pp.
2023 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.

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