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Pseudacris nigrita (Southern Chorus Frog)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The southern chorus frog (Pseudacris nigrita) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family, endemic to the southeastern United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate grassland, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, open excavations, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.It is threatened by habitat loss.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.85
EDGE Score: 2.29
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Male Maturity [1]  1 year
Litter Size [1]  430
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  3 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.26 inches (3.2 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Everglades United States Neotropic Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Florida sand pine scrub United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
Middle Atlantic coastal forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
South Florida rocklands United States Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southeastern conifer forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Big Cypress National Preserve V 732120 Florida, United States
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  
Moores Creek National Battlefield III 100 North Carolina, United States

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Midwest Mixed Emergent Deep Marsh Canada (Ontario); United States (Missouri, Tennessee, Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois, Nebraska, North Dakota, Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin)

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0