Southern chorus frog

Southern chorus frog

Pseudacris nigrita

ITIS Species Code: 173530 NatureServ Element Code: AAABC05040

Taxa:

Order:

Family:

Amphibia

Anura

Hylidae

NatureServe Global Rank:

NatureServe State (NC) Rank:

Federal Status:

NC State Status:

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HEXAGONAL KNOWN RANGE:

PREDICTED DISTRIBUTION:

SUMMARY OF STATEWIDE PREDICTED DISTRIBUTION:

Land Unit

US Fish & Wildlife Service

US Forest Service

US National Park Service

US Department of Defense

NC State Parks

NC University System

NC Wildlife Res. Com.

NC Forest Service

NC Div. of Coastal Mgmt.

Local Governments

Non-Governmental Org.

Other Public Lands

Private Lands

GAP Status 1-2

All Protected Lands

Statewide

Hectares

337.50

5,745.96

20,530.71

5.40

885.51

1,599.12

5,778.63

1,580.94

7.20

35.64

859.50

77.40

211,892.13

5,523.57

37,286.46

249,335.64

Acres

833.98

14,198.57

50,732.48

13.34

2,188.14

3,951.51

14,279.30

3,906.59

17.79

88.07

2,123.87

191.26

523,596.75

13,649.04

92,136.83

616,121.66

% of Dist. on

Prot. Lands

0.9 %

15.4 %

55.1 %

< 0.1 %

2.4 %

4.3 %

15.1 %

4.2 %

< 0.1 %

2.3 %

0.2 %

0.0 %

14.8 %

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% of Dist. on

All Lands

0.1 %

2.3 %

8.2 %

< 0.1 %

0.4 %

0.6 %

2.3 %

0.6 %

< 0.1 %

0.3 %

< 0.1 %

85.0 %

2.2 %

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HABITAT DESCRIPTION:

Primarily terrestrial, the southern chorus frog breeds in both upland and bottomland pools with grassy margins but may move into open upland forests when not breeding (Mount 1975).
NATURE SERVE GLOBAL HABITAT COMMENTS:

Pine flatwoods and forests, wet meadows, moist woodlands, and prairies, often near small gum or cypress ponds; in or near ponds, potholes, and ditches with grassy margins or emergent vegetation. Primarily terrestrial. Burrows into banks of ponds and ditches. Eggs and larvae develop in flooded roadside ditches and fields, margins of shallow ponds, temporary woodland pools, and bogs. Eggs are attached to vegetation.

MODELING DESCRIPTION:

Occupied Landcover Map Units:

Code	Name	Description	NC Natural Heritage Program Equivalent
30	Cypress-Gum Floodplain Forests	Swamps dominated by black or swamp tupelo with or without Taxodium. Seasonally to semi-permanently flooded hydrology.	Cypress-Gum Swamps
78	Pond-Cypress - Gum Swamps, Savannas and Lakeshores	Cypress dominated swamps and lakeshores. Can include bays dominated by pond cypress or shorelines of coastal plain lakes with a narrow band of cypress.	Non-riverine Swamp Forest, Natural Lakeshores (in part)
67	Wet Longleaf or Slash Pine Savanna	Wet flatwoods and pine savannas, typically dominated by longleaf pines, but slash or pond pines may be the dominant pines.	Wet Pine Flatwoods
97	Mesic Longleaf Pine	Longleaf pine woodlands without a major scrub oak component. Slash or loblolly pines may be present as well.	Mesic Pine Flatwoods

View Entire Landcover Legend

Additional Spatial Constraints:

Exclude all area outside of known range.

Exclude brackish and salt water habitats.

CITATIONS:

Conant, R. and J. T. Collins. 1991. A field guide to reptiles and amphibians:eastern and central North America. Third edition. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Massachusetts. 450 pp.

Wilson, L. A. 1995. The Land Manager's Guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the South. Chapel Hill, NC: The Nature Conservancy.

Cocroft, R. B. 1994. A cladistic analysis of chorus frog phylogeny (Hylidae:PSEUDACRIS). Herpetologica 50:420-437.

Conant, R. 1975. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Second Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts. xvii + 429 pp.

Mount, R. H. 1975. The Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama. Auburn University Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn, Alabama. vii + 347 pp.

Behler, J. L., and F. W. King. 1979. The Audubon Society field guide to North American reptiles and amphibians. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 719 pp.

Martof, B. S., W. M. Palmer, J. R. Bailey, and J. R. Harrison, III. 1980. Amphibians and reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 264 pp.

Caldwell, J. P. 1987. Demography and life history of two species of chorus frogs (Anura:Hylidae) in South Carolina. Copeia 1987:114-127.

Gates, W. R. 1988. PSEUDACRIS NIGRITA. Cat. Am. Amph. Rep. 416.1-416.3.

10 March 2005

This data was compiled and/or developed by the North Carolina GAP Analysis Project.

For more information please contact them at:
NC-GAP Analysis Project
Dept. of Zoology, NCSU
Campus Box 7617
Raleigh, NC 27695-7617
(919) 513-2853
www.basic.ncsu.edu/ncgap