



Brimley's Chorus Frog - Pseudacris brimleyi

- Diagnostic Features:
- Size: 1 to 1.25 inches (25 to 32 mm)
- Color:
- Other:
- Bold black stripe down each side of the body,
extending without interruption from snout to groin and
passing through the eye
- Middorsal stripes brown or gray and frequently
faded
- Undersurfaces yellow, chest usually spotted with
brown
- Markings on legs tend to be longitudinal instead of
forming crossbands
- No dark triangle between the eyes
- Sexual Dimorphism:
- Natural History:
- Habitat:
- An early singer in the marshes, swamps, ditches,
and wet open woods of the Coastal Plain
- Low areas in hardwood forests and swamps near rivers and
streams.
- Behavior:
- Breeding:
- February - April, may breed from late fall on.
- Prefers ditches or shallow ponds.
- Females deposit small loose clusters of eggs on stems or
other objects
- Voice: Sonogram
: Call
(Jasper County, South Carolina)
- Short raspiing trill, lasting less than a second and
repeated a dozen times or more
- Tadpoles:
- Tadpole stage: 40 - 60 days
- Transformed size: 9 - 11 mm

- LTRF 2/3; narrow midventral gap in marginal papillae
absent; eyes lateral; P-3 medium to short, P-2/P-3 > 1.2;
east of Mississippi River
- LTRF 2/3; narrow midventral gap in marginal papillae
absent; eyes lateral; east of Mississippi River regardless of
size, stage or range, notable colors or patterns in Section 10
absent; P-3 short, P-2/P-3 > 1.8; lateral surface of tail
muscle distinctly bicolored
- body darkly pigmented; white ventral portion of tail
coloration about 50% of basal muscle height and demarcation
between them is distinct; pale (silver to orange) line of
iridophores from eye to tail junction (largely disappear in
preservative) sometimes extends onto tail to form pale stripe
above black portion; throat distinctly pigmented, usually in
spots; P-2/P-3 ca. > 3.0; spring breeder in temporary or
permanent forest swamp pools in central Coastal Plain of
Virginia to northeastern Georgia coast
-
- throat pigmented uniformly dark; P-2/P-3 > 3.0; length
of one side of A-2/width of medial gap ca. 1.0; to 35 TL; lower
jaw sheath narrow; midventral marginal papillae uniserial;
submarginal papillae lacking; white ventral portion of tail
coloration about 50% of basal muscle height; pale (silver to
orange) line of iridophores from eye to tail junction (largely
disappear in preservative) sometimes extend onto tail to form
pale stripe above black portion; chin and throat distinctly
pigmented, usually in spots; spring breeder in temporary or
permanent forest swamp pools in central Coastal Plain of
Virginia to northeastern Georgia
- Range:
- In North America, it ranges from southeastern Virginia to
eastern Georgia
- In Georgia, it is found in the southeast part of the
state.


- In Light Blue:
Williamson, Gerald K. & Moulis, Robert A., Distribution of
Amphibians and Reptiles in Georgia, Special Publication No. 3,
Savannah Science Museum, Inc. Savannah, Georgia, 1994
- In Green: Sound
Recordings
- In Yellow: From Both
'94 study and Sound Recordings
- In Magenta: Photograph,
not found by '94, may or may not be sound record
- In Medium Blue:
Photograph and in '94 study, may or may not be sound
record
- In Orange: County Record by
other Herp Atlas Volunteers
- In Red: US Distribution
from various sources


September 9, 2006 - wwknapp@mindspring.com