🐸Spring peeper
The spring peeper is a small chorus frog widespread throughout the eastern United States and eastern Canada. It prefers permanent ponds due to its advantage in avoiding predation; however, it is very adaptable with respect to the habitat it can live in. In northern regions, the frog is able to endure below freezing temperatures due to the capacity of its liver to exude and flush the bloodstream with a glucose cryoprotectant which acts both as an anti-freeze in its blood, and allows organs like the heart to enter into a state of protected dormancy. The peeper earned its name from its chirping call, which marks the beginning of spring. Crucifer is derived from the Latin root meaning "cross-bearing", a reference to the cross-like pattern on the spring peeper's dorsal side.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 0 kg
- Body length
- 0.04 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 5 years
Everything we know about the Spring peeper
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
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Body length0.04 mAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan5 yearsmaximum recordedAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation10 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 700AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
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Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAmphibia
- ›orderAnura
- ›familyHylidae
- ›genusPseudacris
- ›speciesPseudacris crucifer
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- familyHylidae
- genusPseudacris
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- superorderBatrachia
- orderFrogs & toads · Anura
- suborderNeobatrachia
- familyHylidae
- genusPseudacris
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