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Amphibians

 

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This page contains a taxanomic outline of amphibians found within the Augusta Creek watershed. Amphibians belong to the Phylum Chordata (vertebrates) and Class Amphibia (moist skin, no scales).

 

 


 

 
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Class Amphibia
  Order Caudata

 
Salamanders and Newts
 

Family Proteidae - Mudpuppies and Waterdogs

  • Necturus maculosus maculosus - Mudpuppy (photo)

Family Ambystomidae - Mole Salamanders

  • Ambystoma laterale - Blue-Spotted Salamander (photo)
  • Ambystoma maculatum - Spotted Salamander (photo)
  • Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum - Eastern Tiger Salamander (photo)

Family Salamandridae - Newts

  • Notophthalmus viridescens louisianensis - Central Newt (photo)

Family Plethodontidae - Lungless Salamanders

  • Plethodon cinereus - Red-Backed Salamander (photo)
  • Hemidactylium scutatum - Four-Toed Salamander (photo)

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Class Amphibia
  Order Anura

 
Toads and Frogs
 

Family Bufonidae - True Toads

  • Bufo americanus americanus - American Toad (photo)

Family Hylidae - True Tree Frogs

  • Acris crepitans blanchardi - Blanchard's Cricket Frog (photo)
    Listed in the Michigan Natural Features Inventory - status.
  • Hyla crucifer crucifer - Northern Spring Peeper (photo)
  • Hyla versicolor and Hyla chrysoscelis ("Eastern" and "Cope's" Gray Tree Frogs are two species similiar in appearance) - Gray Tree Frog (photo)
  • Pseudacris triseriata triseriata - Western Chorus Frog (photo)

Family Ranidae - True Frogs

  • Rana sylvatica - Wood Frog (photo)
  • Rana pipiens - Northern Leopard Frog (photo)
  • Rana palustris - Pickerel Frog (photo)
  • Rana clamitans melanota - Green Frog (photo)
  • Rana catesbeiana - Bull Frog (photo)

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related
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Amphibian links
 

For more frog fun and facts and links to even more frog fun and facts visit Sandra Loosemoore's Froggy page and Dorota's Frogland. (5.10.96)

Coming! Toad and frog population survey data for the Augusta Creek watershed.
 

Unless otherwise credited, the information on amphibians was obtained from "Michigan Frogs, Toads, and Salamanders: A field guide and pocket reference" written by James H. Harding and J. Alan Holman. This book is available through Michigan State University's Extension Service and Museum in E. Lansing, MI., and Kellogg Bird Sancturary near Hickory Corners, MI. Copies may also be obtained from the Michigan United Conservation Club, your local library and bookstore.

Photographs of frogs and toads were scanned from the "Frogs and Toads of Michigan" poster published by MDNR, Wildlife Division, Nongame Wildlife Program. Original copyrights retained by photographers.

 

Augusta Creek Watershed Association

 
Vertebrates of Augusta Creek
Fish   Reptiles   Birds/Mammals

 
Amphibians

 

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