Spring Peeper
Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Accidental

Distribution

Range

Known from seven counties across five states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma

Counties

Alabama

Jackson, Madison

Arkansas

Stone

Florida

Jackson

Georgia

Dade, Walker

Oklahoma

Adair

Conservation and management

IUCN Red List

LC Least Concern

Assessed in 2022.

NatureServe

G5 Secure

National ranks

Canada

N5 Secure

United States

N5 Secure

Subnational ranks

Prince Edward Island

S5 Secure

New Brunswick

S5 Secure

Nova Scotia

S5 Secure

Newfoundland and Labrador

S1 Critically Imperiled

Ontario

S5 Secure

Saskatchewan

SNR Unranked

Manitoba

S5 Secure

Quebec

S5 Secure

Kentucky

S5 Secure

Indiana

S4 Apparently Secure

Illinois

S5 Secure

Connecticut

S5 Secure

Maryland

S5 Secure

Georgia

S5 Secure

West Virginia

S5 Secure

Mississippi

S5 Secure

South Carolina

S5 Secure

Iowa

S4 Apparently Secure

Massachusetts

S5 Secure

Pennsylvania

S5 Secure

Louisiana

S5 Secure

North Carolina

S5 Secure

Wisconsin

S5 Secure

Virginia

S5 Secure

Arkansas

S5 Secure

Vermont

S5 Secure

Kansas

S3 Vulnerable

ME

S5 Secure

Florida

S3 Vulnerable

Minnesota

S4 Apparently Secure

Texas

S5 Secure

District of Columbia

S4 Apparently Secure

NH

S5 Secure

Alabama

S5 Secure

DE

S5 Secure

RI

S5 Secure

Oklahoma

SNR Unranked

Tennessee

S5 Secure

Ohio

SNR Unranked

NJ

S5 Secure

New York

S5 Secure

Missouri

S5 Secure

Michigan

S5 Secure

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Fenolio, D.B., Niemiller, M.L., Slay, M.E. & Carter, E.T. 2017. Biological inventories of caves in the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma: December 2017 field report. Report to Oklahoma Biological Survey. San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Texas, USA. 17 pp.
• Franz, R., Bauer, J. & Morris, T. 1994. Review of biologically significant caves and their faunas in Florida and south Georgia. Brimleyana 20: 1–109. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229726.
• Godwin, J.C. 2008. Biological inventory of the cave and karst systems of The Nature Conservancy's Sharp-Bingham Mountain Preserve. Alabama Natural Heritage Program, Auburn, Alabama, USA. 40 pp.
• Mays, J. 2018. Inventory of Florida's cave fauna with a focus on terrestrial invertebrate species. Progress Report for Florida Park Service. Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 9 pp.
• McDaniel, V.R. & Gardner, J.E. 1977. Cave fauna of Arkansas: vertebrate taxa. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 31: 68–71. https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol31/iss1/22.
• Niemiller, M.L. & Miller, B.T. 2009. A survey of the cave-associated herpetofauna of the eastern United States with an emphasis on salamanders. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Speleology, Kerrville, Texas, USA, Volume 1: 249–256.
• Rheams, K.F., Moser, P.H. & McGregor, S.W. 1992. Geologic, hydrologic, and biologic investigations in Arrowwood, Bobcat, Matthews, and Shelta caves and selected caves, Madison, County, Alabama. Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. 262 pp.
• Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

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