Mobile, Alabama
This guide contains some of the species found in Mobile, Alabama.
The region’s unusual—and in many cases unique—biological diversity could become an important storehouse of critical species and genetic material that would be shared with all of eastern North America as the climate ...more ↓
Bird-voiced Treefrog
The Bird-voiced Treefrog (Hyla avivoca) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, shrub-dominated wetlands, and swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pine Woods Treefrog
Hyla femoralis is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.
Squirrel Treefrog
The Squirrel Treefrog (Hyla squirella) is a small species of tree frog found in the southeastern United States, from Texas to Virginia.
Barking Treefrog
The barking tree frog (Hyla gratiosa) is a tree frog, 5 to 7 centimeters long, and variable in color but easily recognizable due to the characteristic dark round markings on its dorsum. Individuals may be bright or dull green, brown, yellowish, or gray in color. It has prominent round toe pads and the male has a large vocal sac. It is the largest native tree frog in the United ...more ↓
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.
Southern Cricket Frog
The Southern cricket frog (Acris gryllus) is a small Hylid frog native to the Southeastern United States. It is very similar in appearance and habits to the Northern cricket frog, Acris crepitans, and was formerly conspecific (Dickerson 1906). The scientific name Acris is from the Greek word for locust, and the species name gryllus is Latin for cricket ...more ↓
Southern Chorus Frog
The Southern Chorus Frog (Pseudacris nigrita) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate grassland, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, ponds, open excavations, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. It is ...more ↓
Ornate Chorus Frog
The Ornate Chorus Frog (Pseudacris ornata) was named and classified by Holbrook, in 1836.
Spring Peeper
A spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) is a small chorus frog widespread throughout the eastern USA and Canada.
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.
Eastern Spadefoot
The Eastern Spadefoot (Scaphiopus holbrookii) is a type of toad found in North America. It has one spur on each of its back feet for burrowing. It spends almost all of its life deep underground; coming out only to breed, and sometimes eat. It remains in a type of hibernation almost all its life. It burrows in a spiral, preferring sandy soils.
Marbled Salamander
The Marbled Salamander (Ambystoma opacum) is a species of mole salamander found in the eastern United States.
Small-mouthed Salamander
The Smallmouth Salamander (Ambystoma texanum) is a species of salamander found in the central United States, from the Great Lakes region in Michigan to Nebraska, south to Texas, and east to Tennessee, with a population in Canada, in Pelee, Ontario. It is sometimes referred to as the Texas Salamander, Porphyry Salamander, or the Narrowmouthed Salamander. The ...more ↓
Tiger Salamander
The Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) is a species of Mole Salamander. The proper common name is the Eastern Tiger Salamander, as to differentiate from other closely related species.
Spotted Salamander
The spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) is a mole salamander common in the eastern United States and Canada.
Two-toed Amphiuma
The two-toed amphiuma (Amphiuma means) is a snake-like salamander found chiefly in the southeastern United States. It is commonly, but incorrectly, called "congo snake", "conger eel" or the "blind eel". It has a thick body about 36 inches (91 cm) long, four vestigial legs that end in two or three toes which are virtually useless, and eyes with lids. It is of blue-black ...more ↓
One-toed Amphiuma
The One-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma pholeter) is an aquatic, eel-like salamander native to the southeastern United States. It was unknown to science until 1950, when it was collected by herpetologist W. T. Neill. It is rarely observed in the wild, and much about the species remains uncertain.
Three-toed Amphiuma
The Three-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma tridactylum) is a species of aquatic salamander native to the southeastern United States.
Southern Two-lined Salamander
The Southern Two-lined Salamander (Eurycea cirrigera) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States.
Three-lined Salamander
The Three-lined Salamander (Eurycea guttolineata) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States.
Dwarf Salamander
The Dwarf Salamander (Eurycea quadridigitata) is a species of salamander native to the southern United States, from North Carolina to Oklahoma, south to Texas along the Gulf of Mexico states to northern Florida. Some sources refer to it as the Four-fingered Manculus, Dwarf Four-toed Salamander, or the Florida Dwarf Salamander.
Northern Zigzag Salamander
The Northern Zigzag Salamander (Plethodon dorsalis) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States.
Southern Dusky Salamander
The Southern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus) is a species of salamander native to the coastal regions of the southeastern United States, from Virginia to Texas. Older sources often refer to it as the Eared Triton.
Mud Salamander
The mud salamander or midland mud salamander (Pseudotriton montanus diastictus) is a red salamander with black spots that inhabits swamps, bogs, and streams. It is often confused with the red salamander, but the mud salamander is distinguished by its dark eyes and short snout. It is indigenous to the eastern United States, but is currently an endangered species. ...more ↓
Red Salamander
The red salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States. Its skin is orange/red in colour with random black spots.
Four-toed Salamander
The four-toed salamander (Hemidactylium scutatum) is a lungless salamander native to eastern North America. It is a monotypic species of the Hemidactylium genus. (In Francophone Canada, it is called the salamandre àquatre orteils.)
Gulf Coast Waterdog
The Gulf Coast Waterdog, Speckled Waterdog or Beyer’s Waterdog (Necturus beyeri) is a species of aquatic salamander native to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas in the United States.
Eastern Newt
The eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) is a common salamander of eastern North America. Eastern newts dwell in wet forests with small lakes or ponds. They may coexist in an aquatic environment with fish, because their skin secretes a poisonous substance when the newt is threatened or injured. They have a lifespan of 12 to 15 years in the wild, and may grow to 5 ...more ↓
Lesser Siren
The Lesser Siren (Siren intermedia) is a species of aquatic salamander native to the eastern United States and northern Mexico. They are referred by numerous common names, including Two-legged Eel, Dwarf Siren, and Mud Eel. The epithet intermedia denotes their intermediate size, between the Greater Siren, Siren lacertina, and the Dwarf Siren, ...more ↓
Greater Siren
The greater siren (Siren lacertina) is an eel-like amphibian. The largest of the Sirens, they can grow from 48 centimetres (19 in) to 97 centimetres (38 in) in length. They range in color from black to brown, and have a lighter gray or yellow underbelly.
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.
Fowler's Toad
Fowler's Toad (Bufo fowleri) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family found in North America.
Oak Toad
The Oak Toad (Anaxyrus quercicus) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is endemic to the coastal regions of southeastern United States. It is regarded as the smallest species of toad in North America, with a length from 19 to 33 mm (0.75 to 1.3 in).
Southern Toad
The Southern Toad (Anaxyrus terrestris) is a medium-sized (approximately 3Â inches, the largest recorded toad was 4 1/2Â inches) true toad native to the southeastern United States, from eastern Louisiana to southeastern North Carolina. It is most common in areas with sandy soil. Its coloring is usually brown but can be red, gray, or black. It can be kept in a small 5-gallon ...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 frogsâ€, 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:
Pig Frog
The Pig Frog (Rana grylio) is a species of aquatic frog found in the south-eastern United States, from the state of South Carolina to Texas. Some sources also refer to it as the Lagoon Frog or the Southern Bullfrog.
River Frog
The River Frog (Rana heckscheri) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is endemic to the United States.
Pickerel Frog
The Pickerel Frog (Rana palustris) is a small North American frog, characterized by the appearance of seemingly "hand-drawn" squares on their dorsal surface.
