TomSpinker
River Frog on road, SE Georgia, USA
On road outside Okefenokee Swamp.
This has now been identified as a River Frog, Lithobates heckscheri, by several people.
Frog is maybe four inches long (nose to "tail").
I had tentatively identified this as a River Frog.
There should be seven species of frogs, other than tree frogs and chorus frogs, in the Okefenokee Swamp. I ruled out the Leopard Frog, because it doesn't look anything like a Leopard Frog. The six remaining are Gopher Frog, Bull Frog, Bronze Frog, Pig Frog, Carpenter Frog, and River Frog.
I decided that it was a River Frog because the pattern is made up of lines rather than spots, and because there is a fold of skin which starts at the back of the eye, makes a quarter turn around the top of the ear, and drops straight down. This fold of skin matches the photo of a River Frog in my field guide.
Taken on the road at 10:28pm on 29 Aug 2007.
07kc01
River Frog on road, SE Georgia, USA
On road outside Okefenokee Swamp.
This has now been identified as a River Frog, Lithobates heckscheri, by several people.
Frog is maybe four inches long (nose to "tail").
I had tentatively identified this as a River Frog.
There should be seven species of frogs, other than tree frogs and chorus frogs, in the Okefenokee Swamp. I ruled out the Leopard Frog, because it doesn't look anything like a Leopard Frog. The six remaining are Gopher Frog, Bull Frog, Bronze Frog, Pig Frog, Carpenter Frog, and River Frog.
I decided that it was a River Frog because the pattern is made up of lines rather than spots, and because there is a fold of skin which starts at the back of the eye, makes a quarter turn around the top of the ear, and drops straight down. This fold of skin matches the photo of a River Frog in my field guide.
Taken on the road at 10:28pm on 29 Aug 2007.
07kc01