Southern Cricket Frog vs. Northern Cricket Frog

The two meet in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana and across the Southeast (Northern Cricket Frog records within 10 km of 15 Louisiana Southern Cricket Frog records, and in 53 of its one-degree squares range-wide); both are tiny, warty and variable in colour. A: Clean, dark, straight stripe on the back of the thigh, sharply bordered by clean white or cream lines in the Southern Cricket Frog; ragged, broken or broadly smudged stripe with ill-defined borders in the Northern 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 Northern Cricket Frog. C: Sharply pointed and long, giving a triangular head in the Southern Cricket Frog; shorter and blunter in the Northern Cricket Frog. D: Reduced webbing: two or more joints of the 4th toe free in the Southern Cricket Frog; more webbing: about one and a half joints of the 4th toe free in the Northern Cricket Frog. Colour and the stripe down the back vary in both and do not help.

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