Spring peeper

The spring peeper, peeper, northern spring peeper, southern spring peeper, piping tree toad, Pickering's Hylodes, Pickering's Hyla, Pickering's tree frog, Pickering's tree toad or the spotted chorus frog (Pseudacris crucifer) is a frog. It lives in North America. It lives as far north as Manitoba in Canada, as far west as Texas in the United States, as far east as northern Florida, and as far east as places near the Atlantic Ocean. Human beings also brought them to Cuba.^[3][2][1]

Spring peeper
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1][2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Genus:	Pseudacris
Species:	P. crucifer
Binomial name
Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)
Synonyms[3]
Hyla crucifer Wied-Neuwied, 1838 Hylodes pickeringii Holbrook, 1839 Hylodes pickeringii Storer, 1839 Hyla pickeringii Holbrook, 1840 Acris pickeringii Jan, 1857 Hyliola pickeringii Mocquard, 1899 Hyla crucifera Myers, 1927 Hyla crucifera crucifera Harper, 1939 Hyla crucifera bartramiana Harper, 1939 Parapseudacris crucifer Hardy and Burrows, 1986 Pseudacris crucifer Hedges, 1986 Pseudacris crucifer bartramiana Stevenson and Crowe, 1992 Pseudacris crucifer crucifer Stevenson and Crowe, 1992 Hyla crucifer Cocroft, 1994 Pseudacris (Limnaoedus) crucifer Fouquette and Dubois, 2014

This frog may be brown, gray, or green in coloor. Most of them have an X-shaped mark on their backs.^[2]

This frog has two subspecies: P. c. bartramiana. and P. c. crucifer.^[2]

References

1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Spotted Chorus Frog: Pseudacris crucifer". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55892A193392474. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T55892A193392474.en. 55892. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
2. Kevin Gin (May 9, 1985). Vance Vredenburg; Kevin Gin (eds.). "Pseudacris crucifer: Spring Peeper, Southern Spring Peeper, Northern Spring Peeper". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
3. Frost, Darrel R. "Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved August 10, 2022.