Cliff Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactlyus marnockii)
Description: Adult cliff frogs are 0.75 to 1.5 inches in length. They have greenish ground color with brown mottling, often with banding on the rear legs. They have somewhat flattened bodies which allow them to hide in rock crevices.
Habitat: Cliff chirping frogs are nocturnal and live most of their lives on limestone rock faces. Like most frogs, they will hop, but they are also capable of crawling, which aids them in hiding in rock crevices.
Range: They are native to central Texas and their range is central and western Texas as well as northern Mexico
Found in these States:
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Diet: It will eat spiders, flies, centipedes, termites – anything smaller than about two millimeters in length. The frog makes a distinctive call, or chirp, that many Houstonians mistake for crickets or other insects, and can be heard clearly on warm summer evenings.
Reproduction: Breeding occurs year-round, except at the coldest times of the winter, but generally peaks during the rainy season in April and May. Females can lay up to three clutches of eggs a year, in a moist substrate of leaf litter or soil.
Status: In Texas it is classified as Secure.
»» Kingdom: Animalia - Animals
»» Phylum: Chordata - Chordates
»» Subphylum: Vertebrata - Vertebrates
»» Class: Amphibia - Amphibians
»» Order: Anura - Frogs & Toads
»» Family: Eleutherodactylidae - Rain Frogs
»» Genus: Eleutherodactlyus
»» Species: Eleutherodactlyus marnockii - Cliff Chirping Frog
»» Subspecies: None
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