The dark patch is the vocal sac, which stretches out when the male is calling. The males are usually smaller than the females and have a dark patch on their throats. The Pacific tree frog grows up to 2 inches from snout to urostyle. This revision has been controversial but the evidence is supported by other research (e.g., ), and is followed in this article.Ī Pacific tree frog (green morph) sitting on a sunflower leaf stem, Nanoose Bay British Columbia used incorrect names for two of the three populations, but subsequent authors established that the correct name (i.e., the oldest available name) for the northern component is Pseudacris regilla, for the central one Pseudacris sierra, and for the southern one Pseudacris hypochondriaca. split the frog into three species based on DNA evidence. First, the frog was moved from the genus Hyla to the genus Pseudacris in 1986, and Hyliola in 2016 (an elevation of the subgenus which has not been widely accepted).
The taxonomy of this frog has a very confusing history.
They occur in shades of greens or browns and can change colors over periods of hours and weeks. They live from sea level to more than 10,000 feet in many types of habitats, reproducing in aquatic settings. The Pacific tree frog ( Pseudacris regilla), also known as the Pacific chorus frog, has a range spanning the Pacific Northwest, from Northern California, Oregon, and Washington to British Columbia in Canada and extreme southern Alaska.
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