An example of the highly variable Northern Cricket Frog, Acris crepitans from the Piedmont of North Carolina. These are very common around small ponds in this area. This individual was found in my yard--we had a rather wet fall--captured, and posed. Body length of this individual was 17 mm.The Southern Cricket Frog, Acris gryllus is very similar, and is perhaps best distinguished by range--A. crepitans in the Piedmont, A. gryllus (mostly) in the Coastal Plain.See University of Georgia: A. crepitans, A. gryllus.Acris_crepitansPCCA20060916-7747A
A.C.R. Cordillera Escalera, San Martn, Per. At a small permanent rainforest pond, there were at leat 10 frogs calling and some egg nests hanging on branches next to the water.
Leptodactylus sp. (locally known as Tiger Frog) near Chalalan Lake, Tuichi River, Madidi National; Park, Bolivia. Photographed on 27 November 2008.www.inaturalist.org/observations/50346230
The Cane Toad (Bufo marinus), also known as the Giant Neotropical Toad or Marine Toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to Central and South America. It is a member of the subgenus Chaunus of the genus Bufo, which includes many different true toad species throughout Central and South America. The Cane Toad is a prolific breeder; females lay single-clump spawns with large numbers of eggs. Its reproductive success is partly because of opportunistic feeding: it has a diet, unusual among Anurans, of both dead and living matter. Adults average 10 to 15 centimetres (46 in) in length; the largest recorded specimen weighed 2.65 kg (5.8 lb) with a length of 38 cm (15 in) from snout to vent.