Description: Spotted chorus frogs are generally a grey or olive green in color, with lighter green mottling on their backs, and white in color on their undersides. They grow to a maximum of 1.25 inches.

Habitat: Habitat includes open prairie grasslands, pastures, meadows, shrubby areas, lawns near breeding habitat, and the edges of woodlands). This frog is most abundant near the edges of shallow semipermanent to permanent ponds, irrigation canals, and cattle tanks. It goes underground when inactive. Eggs and larvae develop in temporary rain pools and sometimes in permanent ponds.

Range: This species is known from south-central United States (north to Kansas, south through Oklahoma and Texas) to extreme northeastern Mexico.

Found in these States: KS | OK | TX

Diet: Metamorphosed frogs eat various small invertebrates obtained at or near ground level. Larvae eat suspended matter, organic debris, algae, and plant tissue.

Reproduction: Lays clutch of up to 1000 eggs (deposited in small clusters) usually after rains in spring or summer but in virtually any month in south. Aquatic larvae metamorphose into terrestrial form by late summer.

Status: No major threats are known. Various kinds of habitat loss and degradation attributable to human activities (e.g., urbanization, intensive agriculture) undoubtedly have caused localized declines.

Subspecies: None

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