Pine woods tree frog

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Pine woods tree frog
H femoralis USGS.jpg
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Dryophytes
Species:
D. femoralis
Binomial name
Dryophytes femoralis
(Daudin, 1800)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla femoralis (Daudin, 1800)
  • Calamita femoralis (Merrem, 1820)
  • Auletris femoralis (Wagler, 1830)
  • Hyla femoralis femoralis (Cope, 1880)
  • Hyla femoralis (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Hyla (Dryophytes) femoralis (Fouquette and Dubois, 2014)
  • Dryophytes femoralis (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)

The femoral hyla, pine woods tree frog, hyla of the pine woods, piney wood tree frog, pine tree frog, piny woods tree frog, or pine-woods tree frog (Dryophytes femoralis) is a frog that lives in the North America. It lives in the southeastern United States, from Virginia south to Florida and west to Mississippi and Louisiana.[3][1]

The adult male frog is about 4.0 cm long from nose to rear end, and the adult female frog is a little longer. It is medium brown to dark brown in color, with darker spots on the back. It can have orange spots on its sides.[1]

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