Toads in pool strainer...
#1 Guest_njJohn_*
Posted 20 August 2011 - 08:10 PM
#2 Guest_EricaWieser_*
Posted 20 August 2011 - 08:38 PM
The one on the right looks like an american toad, Anaxyrus americanus. Image: http://www.virginiah...mericantoad.jpg
The one on the left could be a gray treefrog, Hyla versicolor. Image: http://www.virginiah...treefrog002.JPG
ID guide: http://www.virginiah...of_virginia.htm
Edited by EricaWieser, 20 August 2011 - 08:51 PM.
#3 Guest_njJohn_*
Posted 20 August 2011 - 08:54 PM
My Aunt once had a new pool in her once wooded yard. I filled with salamanders. They would get mushy and die.
Thanks for the cool link.
Edited by njJohn, 20 August 2011 - 08:58 PM.
#4 Guest_blakemarkwell_*
Posted 20 August 2011 - 11:28 PM
Blake
Edited by blakemarkwell, 20 August 2011 - 11:30 PM.
#5 Guest_Creekwalker_*
Posted 22 August 2011 - 08:15 PM
I was looking for toe pads to see if it's a gray treefrog, but I don't see its feet.
I have seen gray treefrogs in a pool here in western North Carolina, and my sister in-law has them in Atlanta in her outdoor water feature.
#6 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 22 August 2011 - 08:29 PM
So, what happened to Bufo ? I missed this name switch.
#7 Guest_blakemarkwell_*
Posted 22 August 2011 - 10:03 PM
Of course, this isn't universally accepted but Anaxyrus forms a nice monophyletic group and many in the non-accepting category are just contributing to the social inertia that hampers the true (or truer) evolutionary relationship of these groups (just like what is happening with Nothonotus!).
Blake
#8 Guest_andyavram_*
Posted 22 August 2011 - 10:07 PM
Gerald, Blake summed up a bit with the toads (and I am not too opposed to some of the changes) and it changed a few years back. Herp taxonomy as a whole is changing faster than anyone can keep up with and not always for the better due to momentum from a few key people. For a good example just look at the Rat Snakes...
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