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On 6/21/2015 12:07 PM, nancy dowd wrote:
> This is one of the Northern Leopard Frogs (Lithobates pipiens, formerly Rana pipiens) hanging out in my temporary well pond:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/18808723108/in/dateposted-public/
* that's a Green Frog - they're sometimes spotted like that or with even
more Leopard-like patterns, but the dark spots never have the pale rings
around them like Leopards do. I was proposed to discourse on a pattern
variant the has lots and lots of little round spots, but...
fred (Ph.D. thesis on Leopard Frog spotting patterns).
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> All of the images I view in guides and online show the N Leopards as having much larger spots than this one, such as the one shown here:
> http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/facts/northern_leopard_frog_k6.html
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> These are definitely L. pippins based on their calls. Does anyone know if this is a highly variable characteristic within or between populations? Or related to something else (like the muddy pond it is living in)?
>
> Nancy
>
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