Southern Cricket Frog vs. Blanchard's Cricket Frog

In Louisiana the two meet where Blanchard's follows the alluvial floodplains east of the Mississippi into the Florida Parishes (Blanchard's records within 10 km of 46 of 124 Southern Cricket Frog records). West of the river, a cricket frog is not a Southern. A: Clean, dark, straight stripe on the back of the thigh, sharply bordered by clean white or cream lines in the Southern Cricket Frog; dull, ragged, broken or ill-defined stripe in the Blanchard's Cricket Frog. B: Long hind legs: drawn forward along the body, the heel reaches well past the snout in the Southern Cricket Frog; shorter hind legs: drawn forward, the heel reaches the snout or only just past it in the Blanchard's Cricket Frog. C: Reduced: two or more joints of the 4th toe free of web in the Southern Cricket Frog; extensive: only one to one and a half joints of the 4th toe free in the Blanchard's Cricket Frog. D: Sharply pointed and long in the Southern Cricket Frog; blunt and rounded in the Blanchard's Cricket Frog. Place first: Southern Cricket Frogs live only in the Florida Parishes and East Bank parishes of south-east Louisiana.

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