amphibians of austin

Cliff Chirping Frog

The Cliff Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus marnockii) is a small Leptodactylid frog found in the United States, in central and western Texas.

Rio Grande Chirping Frog

The Rio Grande Chirping Frog or Mexican Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides) is a small Leptodactylid frog found from the southern United States in scattered locales in the state of Texas, and south into the Mexican states of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, and Veracruz. It is a terrestrial frog, that lays its eggs in moist areas of soil and ...more ↓

Gray Treefrog

The Gray Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor), written more commonly as one word as Gray Treefrog, is a species of small arboreal frog native to much of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada.

Cope's Gray Treefrog

The Cope's Grey Tree Frog (Hyla chrysoscelis) is a species of tree frog which is found in the United States. It is almost indistinguishable from the Grey Tree Frog, Hyla versicolor, and shares much of its geographic range. Both species are variable in color, mottled gray to gray-green, resembling the bark of trees. These are tree frogs of woodland habitats, though they ...more ↓

Green Tree Frog

The American green tree frog (Hyla cinerea) is a common species of New World tree frog belonging to the genus Hyla. It is a popular species of pet frog.

Northern Cricket Frog

The Northern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans) is a species of small Hylid frog native to the United States and northeastern Mexico. Despite being members of the tree frog family, they are not arboreal. There are three recognized subspecies.

Strecker's Chorus Frog

Strecker's Chorus Frog is a species of nocturnal tree frog native to the south central United States, from southern Kansas, through Oklahoma and east to Arkansas, the northwestern tip of Louisiana and south throughouth much of Texas.

Spotted Chorus Frog

The Spotted Chorus Frog or Clark's Tree Frog (Pseudacris clarkii) is a small, nocturnal tree frog native to the grasslands and prairies of central United States and Tamaulipas state, Mexico. It is found from central Kansas, Oklahoma and northeastern New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico and Rio Grande river valley in Texas and Tamaulipas.

Western Chorus Frog

The Western Chorus Frog or Striped Chorus Frog (Pseudacris triseriata) is a species of tree frog found in Canada and the United States.

Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad

The Eastern Narrowmouth Toad (Gastrophryne carolinensis) is a species of microhylid frog. It is found in the United States, from southern Maryland to the Florida keys, west to Missouri and Texas. While not a true toad, they are so called because they are terrestrial.

Western Narrow-mouthed Toad

The Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad (Gastrophryne olivacea) is a species of microhylid frog. They are found throughout much of the south central United States from the state of Nebraska south through Texas, and into northern Mexico. Though not a true toad, they are often referred to as toads, because they are terrestrial.

Couch's Spadefoot

The Couch's Spadefoot Toad, (Scaphiopus couchii) is a species of North American spadefoot toad native to the southwestern United States and the Baja region of Mexico. The epithet couchii is in honor of American naturalist Darius Nash Couch, who collected the first specimen while on a personal expedition to northern Mexico to collect plant, mineral and animal specimens for ...more ↓

Hurter's Spadefoot

Hurter's Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus hurteri) is a species of spadefoot toad found in the south central United States (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma) and northern Mexico. It was once classified as a subspecies of the eastern spadefoot toad, (Scaphiopus holbrookii) but it has been granted its own species status. The epithet hurterii is in honor of the ...more ↓

Southern Leopard Frog

The Southern Leopard Frog (Rana sphenocephala) is a species of mostly aquatic true frog, found in the south-eastern third of the United States. There are two accepted subspecies.

Green Toad

Anaxyrus debilis, also classified as Bufo debilis, is a species of toad found in the Southwestern United States in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Texas, as well as in northern Mexico in the states of Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Durango and Zacatecas. Its common name is the Green Toad.

Houston Toad

The Houston toad (Bufo houstonensis) is an endangered species of amphibian that is endemic to Texas in the United States. This toad was discovered in the late 1940s and named in 1953. Official estimates are that just 3,000 - 4,000 adult Houston Toads are left in the world.

Red-spotted Toad

The Red-spotted toad (Bufo punctatus) is a small toad species growing to 3.7 to 7.5 centimeters in length. It has a flattened head and body, and a light grey, olive or reddish brown dorsum with reddish or orange skin glands. It has a whitish or buff venter with or without faint dark spotting, and round parotoid glands. Its snout is pointed.

Texas Toad

The Texas Toad (Bufo speciosus) is a species of small (3") toad native to the United States, primarily in the state of Texas, but it ranges north into Oklahoma, west into New Mexico and south into Mexico.

Woodhouse's Toad

The Woodhouse's Toad, (Bufo woodhousii) is a medium-sized (4 inches / 10 centimetres) true toad, which is native to the United States and Mexico. There are two recognized subspecies. The epithet woodhousii is in honor of the American physician and naturalist Samuel Washington Woodhouse. B. woodhousii tends to hybridize with Bufo americanus in their ...more ↓

Barking Frog

The Barking Frog (Craugastor augusti) is a species of frog in the Craugastoridae family. It is found in Mexico and the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and temperate desert.

Gulf Coast Toad

The Gulf Coast Toad (Incilius valliceps) is a species of toad native to the southern United States (Texas, Louisiana), Mexico, and Central America as far south as Costa Rica.

Crawfish Frog

The Crawfish Frog (Rana areolata) is a species of aquatic frog native to the central United States. It gets its name because crayfish are its primary diet, and it inhabits crayfish burrows. It is also known as the Ringed Frog, in its northern ranges as Hoosier Frog, and in its southern ranges as the Texas Frog. The name "Gopher Frog" is sometimes misapplied ...more ↓

Rio Grande Leopard Frog

The Rio Grande Leopard Frog (Rana berlandieri) is a species of aquatic frog native to the southern United States in Texas and New Mexico, and south through to central Mexico. It is also sometimes referred to as the Mexican Leopard Frog. The epithet berlandieri is in honor of the Belgian naturalist Jean Louis Berlandier, who worked for the Mexican government on one ...more ↓

American Bullfrog

The American Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana)), often simply known as the Bullfrog in Canada and the United States, is an aquatic frog, a member of the family Ranidae, or “true frogs”, native to much of North America. This is a frog of larger, permanent water bodies, swamps, ponds, lakes, where it is usually found along the water's edge. On rainy nights, bullfrogs ...more ↓

Green Frog

Green frog is a term that can refer to various frogs inhabiting different parts of the world:

Cajun Chorus Frog

Pseudacris fouquettei is a species of chorus frog found in the south-eastern United States. It was recently separated from similar species, Pseudacris feriarum.

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