Cricket frog

{{Short description|Genus of North American amphibians}} {{other uses}} {{redirect|Acris|the Romanian village|Acriş}} {{automatic taxobox | name = Cricket frogs | fossil_range = {{fossil range|16|0|Early Miocene to present}} | image = Cricket frog2.JPG | image_caption = ''Acris gryllus'' | taxon = Acris | authority = Duméril & Bibron, 1841 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''Acris blanchardi'' * ''Acris crepitans'' * ''Acris gryllus'' | synonyms_ref = <ref name=Frost/> }}

'''Cricket frogs''', genus '''''Acris''''', are small, North American frogs of the family Hylidae.<ref name=Frost/><ref name=AmphibiaWeb/> They occur in northern Mexico (Coahuila), the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, and in southern Ontario, Canada.<ref name=Frost/>

They are more aquatic than other members of the family, and are generally associated with permanent bodies of water with surface vegetation. This is a quite important aspect of their survival, as adult cricket frogs suffer high mortality rates when submerged in poorly oxygenated water (typically less than 24 hours on average in water that is ~1.2 mg/L).<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hoskins|first1=Tyler D.|last2=Dellapina|first2=Maria|last3=Papoulias|first3=Diana M.|last4=Boone|first4=Michelle D.|date=2019-04-01|title=Effects of larval atrazine exposure in mesocosms on Blanchard's cricket frogs (Acris blanchardi) reared through overwintering and to reproductive age|journal=Chemosphere|volume=220|pages=845–857|doi=10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.12.112|pmid=33395806|bibcode=2019Chmsp.220..845H|s2cid=104305772|issn=0045-6535}}</ref> The common and scientific names refer to their call, which resembles that of a cricket. The two common species are ''A. crepitans'' and ''A. gryllus''. ''A. crepitans'' are found in mesic woodlands as well as xeric grasslands, whereas ''A. gryllus'' are concentrated in mesic woodlands.

Cricket frogs are able to communicate and attract each other using a specific frequency of their mating call, that sounds like a cricket. It can only be heard by members of the same population. Cricket frogs from other locales are unable to aurally process other calls, leading to mating isolation among the species.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ryan|first=Michael J.|date=1988-06-24|title=Coevolution of sender and receiver: Effect on local mate preferecnce in Cricket Frogs|journal=Science|language=en|volume=240|issue=4860|pages=1786|doi=10.1126/science.240.4860.1786|issn=0036-8075|pmid=17842431|bibcode=1988Sci...240.1786R|s2cid=27475731}}</ref>

==Species== There are three species:<ref name=Frost/><ref name=AmphibiaWeb/> * ''Acris blanchardi'' Harper, 1947 – Blanchard's cricket frog * ''Acris crepitans'' Baird, 1854 – northern cricket frog * ''Acris gryllus'' (LeConte, 1825) – southern cricket frog The earliest known fossil member of the group is †''Acris barbouri'' Holman, 1967 from the Early Miocene of Florida, US.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Holman |first=J. Alan |date=1967 |title=Additional Miocene Anurans from Florida |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24314704 |journal=Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=121–140 |issn=0015-3850}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Barrow |first=Lisa N. |last2=Bigelow |first2=Alyssa T. |last3=Phillips |first3=Christopher A. |last4=Lemmon |first4=Emily Moriarty |date=2015 |title=Phylogeographic inference using Bayesian model comparison across a fragmented chorus frog species complex |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.13343 |journal=Molecular Ecology |language=en |volume=24 |issue=18 |pages=4739–4758 |doi=10.1111/mec.13343 |issn=1365-294X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|30em|refs= <ref name=AmphibiaWeb>{{cite web |url=http://www.amphibiaweb.org/lists/Hylidae.shtml|title=Hylidae |year=2018 |work=AmphibiaWeb |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |accessdate=27 October 2018}}</ref>

<ref name=Frost>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Acridinae/Acris |title=''Acris'' Duméril and Bibron, 1841 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2018 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |accessdate=27 October 2018}}</ref> }} * {{aut|eol - Encyclopedia of Life}} taxon [https://web.archive.org/web/20081005171639/http://www.eol.org/taxa/16141863 ''Acris''] at http://www.eol.org.

==External links== {{Wikispecies-inline|Acris}} {{Commonscat-inline|Acris}}

Category:Cricket frogs Category:Amphibian genera Category:Frogs of North America Category:Taxa named by Gabriel Bibron Category:Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril