Description: This species ranges from 1.3 to 1.9 inches in snout to vent length (SVL), with females being a few millimeters larger than males on average. They have no spots on their dorsal surfaces and compared to other North American members of the genus Lithobates, the webbing between the toes is greatly reduced. They are light green. Males have a yellow throat and larger tympana. Tadpoles are brown with dark spots on the tail and light spots on the ventral surface.

The Florida bog frog differs from other American frogs by reduced webbing of their feet; "at least three phalanges of the 4th toe are free of webbing and at least two phalanges of all other toes are free".

Habitat: Florida Bog Frogs occupy sluggish backwaters and seepages associated with clear, sand-bottomed streams. They prefer relatively open mucky areas that are thickly vegetated with low-lying herbaceous plant species, and are especially fond of areas dominated by sphagnum. The structure of their preferred microhabitats are maintained by the regular intrusion of fire and they will abandon habitats that become thickly overgrown with woody shrubs. Suppression of hot summer fires that enter wooded stream bottoms has led to the loss and degradation of much of the species' historic breeding habitat.

Range: The Florida bog frog inhabits a total area of less than 7.7 miiles. It is found in shallow ponds or creeks along tributaries of the East Bay, Shoal and Yellow Rivers in Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Walton Counties in Florida. About 90% of its range lies within Eglin Air Force Base, so the major threat to this species originates from human activity disturbing their natural habitat. However, "US national security has priority over wildlife", and the species showed some tolerance to intrusion.

Found in these States: FL

Diet: We have no information on the food habits of this species. However, it probably feeds like other species of it's genus (Lithobates). In this case, then adults would be predators on small animals, mostly invertebrates like insects and spider, possibly very small vertebrates, such as other tiny frogs.

Reproduction: Relatively little is known about their reproduction and development. Males call at night during the summer months, often in areas where Green frogs (Lithobates clamitans) also breed. Females lay several hundred eggs at a time on the surface of shallow, non-stagnant, acidic (pH 4. to 5.5) water during the spring and summer. Tadpoles metamorphose by the next spring.

Status: This species was unknown to science until the 1982, when it was discovered by State of Florida herpetologist Paul Moler while conducting surveys for the Pine Barrens Treefrog (Hyla andersonii).

Subspecies: None

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