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Lithobates clamitans
Green frogs live wherever shallow freshwater ponds, road-side ditches, lakes, swamps, streams, and brooks are found. Most often seen resting along the shore, they leap into the water when approached. By inhabiting an ecotone, in this case the terrestrial and aquatic habitat boundary, green frogs (and other aquatic ranid frogs), by employing a simple leap, leave behind their many and faster terrestrial enemies that cannot similarly cross that boundary.
North Carolina Botanical Garden
Thank you for the information and correction, Ashley. And thanks, gatorfellows and Bhagya Herath, for your nice comments!
This is a Green Frog. And the names you have listed for The Leopard Frog, Lithobates is now the Genus in North America, not Rana. And Rana utricularia is not a species name, utricularia is a subspecies. So it would be Rana sphenocephala utricularia (Lithobates now). Either way, this is a Green Frog.
Thank you, Pedro. I guess it just means that anyone who is using data from Project Noah to track spottings of the Southern Leopard Frog must look for spottings with all three scientific names! :)
I don't know if the ID is correct nor what the most correct name is, but I do know this is a stunning frog!
What I will say though is that there are several taxonomy entities and there isn't always the most correct one - that depends on which one do you follow or agree more with.
Spotted on May 29, 2013
Submitted on Aug 2, 2013
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