Northern Cricket Frog
Northern Cricket Frog
Acris crepitans
Amphibia
UNCOMMON

Stats

Lifespan
1-2 years
Size
Small
Diet
Insectivore
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Solitary
Biome
Freshwater wetland
Range
North America
Movement
Hopping
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Camouflage
Status
Uncommon

About

This small frog lives along the muddy edges of ponds across North America. It can jump up to sixty times its own body length in a single leap.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    egg
    A jelly-coated egg is laid in water and develops over days into an aquatic larva.
  2. 2.
    tadpole
    A gilled tadpole swims and grazes on algae, slowly absorbing its tail and growing limbs.
  3. 3.
    juvenile
    A near-adult amphibian leaves the water with new legs and lungs, smaller than the mature form.
  4. 4.
    adult
    Fully grown at adult size, breathing air.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Amphibia
Order
Anura
Family
Hylidae
Genus
Acris
Species
Acris crepitans