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| Northern cricket frog | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Acris |
| Species: | A. crepitans
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| Acris crepitans Baird, 1854
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Acris crepitans crepitans | |
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The northern cricket frog (Acris crepitans) is a species of small hylid frog native to the United States and northeastern Mexico. These frogs are majorly in grey, green, and brown color with blotching patterns. Many have a brown or orange stripe down the center of their back and a triangular marking on the top of their head.[2] Despite being members of the tree frog family, they are not arboreal. These frogs prefer habitats near the edges of slow-moving bodies of water, and in close proximity to shelter items, like rocks.[3] It has two recognized subspecies, A. c. crepitans and A. c. paludicola.
- ^ Geoffrey Hammerson, Georgina Santos-Barrera, Don Church (2004). "Acris crepitans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T55286A11272584. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T55286A11272584.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Species Profile: Northern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans) | SREL Herpetology". srelherp.uga.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
- ^ Smith, Geoffrey R.; Todd, Adam; Rettig, Jessica E.; Nelson, Frank (2003). "Microhabitat Selection by Northern Cricket Frogs (Acris crepitans) along a West-Central Missouri Creek: Field and Experimental Observations". Journal of Herpetology. 37 (2): 383–385. doi:10.1670/0022-1511(2003)037[0383:MSBNCF]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-1511. JSTOR 1566156. S2CID 85962268.