Acris crepitans (Northern Cricket Frog)
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NORTHERN
CRICKET FROG
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854
STATUS: Abundant
LOCALITIES OBSERVED: Collin
Co.: Wylie area, Lake
Lavon, back end of Lake Ray Hubbard, and roads N of Farmersville;
Dallas Co.: Farmers
Branch Creek, Glen Lake Country Club, Seagoville area, Mt. Creek Lake
area, Coombs Creek at the Trinity River, and Dallas County Environmental
Center; Parker Co.: 12.7
mi W of jct CR 180 on US 80 and 5.4 mi N of Tx 171 on US 377 in Bear
Creek; Somervell Co.: Puluxy
River in Glen Rose; Tarrant
Co.: Lake Worth, Rocky
Creek at Benbrook Lake, Lake Arlington, and Grapevine Lake;
Wise Co.: Lyndon
B. Johnson Nat'l Grasslands near Decatur
DOCUMENTED COUNTIES: Collin,
Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hood, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell,
Tarrant, and Wise
HABITAT: permanent
water in all habitat areas
SUBSPECIES: Blanchard's
Cricket Frog (A. c. blanchardi Harper,
1947)
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