Hyla chrysoscelis (Cope's Gray Treefrog)
Hyla versicolor (Gray Treefrog)
|
|
|
|
|
COPE'S
AND GRAY TREEFROG
Hyla chrysoscelis Cope, 1880 and Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825
STATUS: Uncommon
LOCALITIES OBSERVED: Dallas
Co.: Lancaster Club Lake
E of Hutchins, and Lemmon Lake; Parker
Co.: near Rio Brazos
Estates on Brazos River; Somervell Co.:
1.1 mi SW of US 67 on Van Zandt Rd;
Tarrant Co.: Ft.
Worth Nature Center and railroad trestle over Indian Creek near FM 718;
Wise Co.: Lyndon
B. Johnson Nat'l Grasslands near Black Lake
DOCUMENTED COUNTIES: Dallas,
Denton, Ellis, Hood, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant, and
Wise
HABITAT: Trinity River
Bottoms, Brazos River Bottoms, Western Cross Timbers, and Post Oak Belt
COMMENTS: In the
field, these two sympatric species can only be distinguished by their
calls.
|