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Strecker's Chorus Frog
Pseudacris streckeri Wright and Wright, 1933

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:
USA: Arkansas Kansas Louisiana Oklahoma Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Ornate Chorus Frog (Pseudacris ornata: Strecker, John K., Jr. 1922. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31); Strecker's Ornate Chorus Frog (Pseudacris streckeri: 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.); Texas Ornate Chorus Frog (Pseudacris streckeri: 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.); Strecker's Chorus Frog (Pseudacris streckeri: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Strecker's Chorus Frog (Pseudacris streckeri streckeri: 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

Selected References:
1923 Noble, G. Kingsley. The generic and genetic relations of Pseudacris, the swamp tree frogs. American Museum Novitates (70):1-6
1933 Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.
1957 Mecham, John S. Some hybrid combinations between strecker's chorus frog, Pseudacris streckeri, and certain related forms. Texas Journal of Science 9(3):337-345
1959 Mecham, John S. Experimental evidence of the relationship of two allopatric chorus frogs of the genus Pseudacris. Texas Journal of Science 11():343-347
1966 Smith, Philip W. Pseudacris streckeri. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (27):1-2
1977 Stegall, Eddie. First Strecker's Chorus Frog collected in Kansas. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter (21):11-13
1982 Gray, Peter. Distribution and Status of Strecker's Chorus Frog (Pseudacris streckeri streckeri) in south-central Kansas. Contract #48. Kansas Fish and Game Commission, Pratt. 23pp.
1986 Gray, Peter and Eddie Stegall. Distribution and status of Strecker's Chorus Frog (Pseudacris streckeri streckeri) in Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 89():81-85
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Viewpoint: A new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibins and reptiles Herpetological Review 22(2):42-43
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Amphibians and reptiles in the upper Mississippi river valley: Systematic and distributional problems. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 66(4):149-152
1998 Packard, Gary C., John K. Tucker, and Leslie D. Lohmiller. Distribution of Strecker's Chorus frogs (Pseudacris streckeri) in relation to their tolerance for freezing. Journal of Herpetology 32(3):437-440
2004 Miller, Larry L. Notes on Strecker's Chorus Frog activity in Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology (10):13
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 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
2007 Moriarty-Lemmon, Emily. Patterns and Processes of Speciation in North American Chorus Frogs (Pseudacris). Dissertation. University of Texas, Austin. 304pp.
2013 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 982pp.
2014 Crother, Brian I. The bold taxonomic hypotheses of Collins (1991): 23 years later. Herpetological Review 45(2):268-272
2016 Barrow, Lisa Evolutionary insights from analyses of spatial genetic variation in North American frogs. Dissertation. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. 186pp.
2023 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.

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